The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

Astronomers have recently uncovered a remarkable planetary system around the faint orange star WASP-132, featuring two ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

A rocky planet with a 24-hour orbit and an ice giant that takes five years to complete its orbit have been detected orbiting ...

Unassuming, icicle-like tubes could help answer mysteries about Earth’s climate. They are the world’s oldest ice cores, which have just landed in the UK after being drilled from the depths of ...

Ah, Earth.We may not think about our planet on a day-to-day basis, but the world we live in is a pretty interesting place. The third rock from the Sun—and to this day, the only one with known ...

Astronomers announced today the discovery of a frigid extrasolar planet several times larger than Earth orbiting a small red dwarf star roughly 9,000 light years away. The finding alters ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

Earth scientists concluded the planet lost a prodigious 28 trillion tonnes of ice between 1994 and 2017, and the rate of melting is accelerating. Prime Day Digital Culture Tech Science Life Social ...

The periods known as Snowball Earth made our recent ice ages look like a minor chill. Not only were there massive glaciers at the equator, but in one case the cold lasted an estimated 57 million ...