This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

Exoplanets can be quite different from Earth, but occasionally researchers find one that gives a sneak peak into what the ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...

THE country has declared a boycott of next month’s UN climate summit, branding the global warming negotiations a “waste of ...

When a giant asteroid hit Earth around 66 million years ago, it created a massive disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs. But somehow, many mammals survived, and scientists have some ideas why. Unlike ...

It's the latest epic discovery in the game, with a player recently finding a strangely Earth-like planet. Since the Worlds ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

Computer simulations suggest that there is an undiscovered Earth-like planet lurking in the distant ... [+] Kuiper Belt, well past the orbit of Neptune (artistic illustration). There may be an ...

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During the most critical month of the year, May, the Planet Earth Live team followed the lives of individual young animals growing up in the wild. They captured the incredible real life stories ...