A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

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

Our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and ... didn't freeze over some 4.5 billion years ago, under the reign of then-young ...

Here’s what to know about our new, temporary celestial neighbor. Earth has a large gravitational pull. So it’s not uncommon ...

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

The crisis at its doorstep - a nearly 2,000km (1,240-mile) border - is becoming costly for China, which has invested millions ...

It started with a melting glacier, which set off a landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high mega-tsunami in Greenland. Then ...

In a new study, geologists from Australia and China have pieced together Earth's tectonic evolution over the past 1.8 billion ...

The more water from the polar regions flows into the world’s oceans— particularly into equatorial areas—the more significant the drag factor on the speed at which Earth rotates, says the paper.

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

Blue Origin and SpaceX have been feuding since way back in November 2015, when Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos stole Musk's ...

Scientists until then had believed that the ... are the earliest evidence on Earth of large, biologically complex beings. There are now more than 50 different Ediacaran forms known, from nearly ...