Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...
I f astronomers had been walking the Earth 466 million years ago, they may have had something special to see. The moon and ...
An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...
This new floating rock is only expected to orbit the Earth once, beginning its trip Sept. 29 before breaking off from its ...
At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...
Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid ...
Earth is set to become a two-moon planet for the next couple of months as a 10-metre-wide asteroid - officially known as ...
When approaching Earth, asteroids tend to do one of two things: Most of the time, they miss. Sometimes, they hit, leaving a ...
Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.