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 ...

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

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

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

Our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and, through careful work, scientists have pieced together a timeline of its past.

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

The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is regularly plagued by the fact that humanity has a very limited perspective on civilization and the nature of intelligence itself. When it comes ...

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

“Separation confirmed. Starliner is now backing away from station and starting its return to Earth. Starliner’s thrusters will then complete two short firings to gradually increase the ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A tech billionaire popped out from a SpaceX capsule hundreds of miles above Earth and performed ...