Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

An international team of researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions—and it could change our ...

Scientists have finally cracked one of space’s most perplexing mysteries by uncovering why carbon-rich asteroids—common in ...

Burning oil, gas, and coal — literal fossil fuels, made from the compressed remains of ancient plants and plankton — has released carbon into Earth’s atmosphere, where it traps heat and alters the ...

Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

It seems as if Earth's atmosphere is incredibly thin, wrapped tightly around our planet. In fact, the atmosphere consists of multiple layers, with some scientists of the opinion that the atmosphere ...

Carbon-rich water sinks deep underground, locking away CO2 where it can’t harm the climate anymore, even during earthquakes.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

The ocean naturally pulls in about a quarter of the carbon dioxide people produce. It's the planet’s largest carbon sink.

Burning oil, gas, and coal — literal fossil fuels, made from the compressed remains of ancient plants and plankton — has released carbon into Earth’s atmosphere, where it traps heat and ...