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

In celebration of National Cheeseburger Day (September 18) and with the Double Charburger recently ranked #1 by USA TODAY's ...

An effort to understand Earth’s past climates uncovered a history of wild temperature shifts and offered a warning on the ...

A four-person SpaceX crew returned to Earth early Sunday after the Polaris Dawn mission, which included the first private ...

Microbes, after all, play enormously consequential roles in the world around us and within us—I should credit the trillions ...

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

Life made the modern Earth as much as the Earth made life, a new book by a philosopher of consciousness argues. That dynamic ...

This new floating rock is only expected to orbit the Earth once, beginning its trip Sept. 29 before breaking off from its ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

Earth may have had rings. At least that's what a new study published this month claims. Here's what we know so far.

Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...