This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

A solar wind event squashed the protective bubble around Uranus just before Voyager 2 flew by the planet in 1986, shifting ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a white dwarf 4,000 light years away, raising questions about Earth ...

The Atacama Desert, which runs along the Pacific Coast in Chile, is the driest place on the planet and, largely because of ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

Scheduled to pass by Earth on April 13, 2029, Apophis will come within just 19,000 miles of our planet—closer than some ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a ...

Happy New Year's on Mars. Martian years are almost twice as long as Earth years. Nov. 12 is the day to celebrate the start of a new red planet orbit around the sun.

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

How would Xenomorphs even get to our pale blue dot? ‘Alien Earth’ is propped to show us exactly that, as well as the horror ...