Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...

Space travel may be out of reach for most people, but there are still many fascinating landscapes on our planet waiting to be ...

In celebration of National Cheeseburger Day (September 18) and with the Double Charburger recently ranked #1 by USA TODAY's ...

A four-person SpaceX crew returned to Earth early Sunday after the Polaris Dawn mission, which included the first private ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

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

BlackSky wins prestigious 2024 Novaspace Leading Earth Observation Business Award at World Space Business Week in Paris.

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

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

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

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 ...