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An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

At times during the past half-billion years, carbon dioxide warmed our planet more than previously thought, according to a ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...

“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...

This new floating rock is only expected to orbit the Earth once, beginning its trip Sept. 29 before breaking off from its ...

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

The massive collection celebrating Harrison's second solo album arrives on November 15th. George Harrison’s Living in the ...

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...