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 ...

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

But for the first time in the annals of modern times, the very fabric of timekeeping is being threatened by no human weakness, but by the planet itself. The Earth will complete its rotation 1.34 ...

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, ...

National Geographic teamed up with scientists and universities around the world to give an accurate depiction of what Earth would look like if sea level rose by 216 feet, the equivalent of melting ...

For billions of years, the Moon's gravity has been acting like a handbrake slowing down our spin in a process known as 'tidal ...

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 ...

From a solid icy Earth to a slushy planet, scientists' understanding of the most dramatic ice ages have evolved over two decades.

Research reveals how Earth got its ice caps Date: February 14, 2025 Source: University of Leeds Summary: The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the ...