"Primordial black holes do not live in the solar system. Rather, they’re streaming through the universe, doing their own thing. And the probability is, they’re going through the inner solar system at ...

Since 1988, 71% of all the world’s carbon emissions have been produced by just 100 companies. Their operations are largely to blame for the climate crisis we now face. A crisis that costs the world ...

It was far from obvious that Wilcox, a 38-year-old long distance bike racer grew up in Alaska and now lives in Tucson, had ...

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 ...

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

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 gravitational pull on Nov. 25.

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

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

Earth may have sported a Saturn-like ring system 466 million years ago, after it captured and wrecked a passing asteroid, a new study suggests. The debris ring, which likely lasted tens of millions of ...

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