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

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

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

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

A new mini-moon—referred to scientifically as 2024 PT5—is set to make a two-month orbit around the Earth this fall. Here’s ...

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

You stand at the shore of a desolate ocean on a desolate world. As the dawn breaks, a strangely red star, 50 times larger ...

A Mars scientist shares the inside story of the NASA Curiosity rover's poignant first photo of Earth and Mars moon Phobos ...

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

The object was initially spotted by NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Observation Program. It uses various observatories around ...

SpaceX's Polaris Dawn crew has returned to Earth after five days in orbit, following a historic mission featuring the world's ...

A ring of asteroid debris could have orbited Earth for tens of millions of years, and perhaps even have altered the planet's ...