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

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

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

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 ...

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

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

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.

Earth may have had rings. At least that's what a new study published this month claims. Here's what we know so far.

“Too much of the world, it seems, has come under human influence during a time when we’re not very good at working out how to ...

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

A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...