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

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, ...

If they hadn't paid attention to the fluctuating readings of Earth's ozone layer, humans would have probably died by now.

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

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and ...

The story begins in 1835, when the first of what would become thousands of dams was built. These human-made reservoirs store ...

Ancient river landscapes buried beneath the East Antarctic Ice Sheet have been uncovered by radar, revealing vast, flat ...

‘We are hoping to unlock all these amazing secrets.’ The new core ice, which was drilled near the Concordia research station in the ‘White Continent,’ beats the previous 800,000-year-old ice, which ...

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

If life can thrive and survive under the ice in Antarctica, it might also be possible it can thrive in extraterrestrial environments too' ...

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 ...

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