Billions of years ago, a rock crack exuding heat could have brought different biomolecules together to kickstart protein ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

Scientists believe they've discovered a 'ghost' plume for the first time. Rising from Earth's core beneath Oman, the unusually elusive column of hot rock shows no surface volcanic activity, unlike ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

Earth last year shattered global annual heat records, flirted with the world's agreed-upon warming threshold and showed more signs of a feverish planet, the European climate agency said Tuesday.

Brace yourself. The last three days have probably been the Earth’s hottest on record. Last month was the hottest June ever recorded. Punishing, deadly heat has hit large swaths of the planet ...

On a week where global temperatures broke record after record, much of United States wasn't all that hot. The Earth as a whole, however, was. Most days broke unofficial temperature records that ...

Earth’s atmosphere is trapping more than twice as much excess heat now compared to 1993, making scientists increasingly concerned about the impact on the world’s oceans.

Earth surpasses unofficial heat record 03:49. Earth's average temperature remained at a record high Wednesday after two days in which the planet reached unofficial records.