Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

At the United Nations climate talks, hosted in Baku, Azerbaijan, nations are trying to set new targets to cut emissions of ...

New evidence found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado supports the notion that Snowball Earth was indeed a global phenomenon.

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

Life on Earth has faced catastrophic events before, but certain extinction-level threats could completely erase humanity.

The 2024 state of the climate report shows 25 of the 35 vital signs scientists are monitoring are at their all-time worst ...

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must first look at a supernova's ...

After a few days of mystery, astronomers have reported that the fiery streak was a Starlink satellite re-entering Earth's ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

The significance of this discovery lies in its potential to bridge the gap between simple molecular structures and the ...