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

For much of the planet’s recent geological history, ice ages came and went every 41,000 years. Then, during a period ...

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 ...

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

Learn more about the nearly two decades worth of research showing how the toxins found in bowhead whale poop are a climate ...

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

‘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 ...

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

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

Unassuming, icicle-like tubes could help answer mysteries about Earth’s climate. They are the world’s oldest ice cores, which ...