A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the solar system—but it’s still no place like home ...

Humanity and fire have been reforging the Earth since the end of the last glaciation ... may have even helped nudge the planet into the Little Ice Age from the mid-16th to mid-19th centuries.

Earth’s ice caps exist due to a rare combination of cooling processes. Without these, Earth would likely remain warm and ...

Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation for why they sometimes form ...

Humans have become a geologic force by cooking the planet – using fire on a scale that is altering land, water, air and ecosystems.

The 30th annual fire and ice festival is happening in Somerset County Jan. 17. 1/17/25 Sound of a meteorite hitting Earth captured for the first time – on a doorbell camera Netflix’s first ...

Iceland, often dubbed the “Land of Fire and Ice,” is a country of stark contrasts ... it one of the most volcanically active ...

1976, Berger & Loutre 1991). Because the major changes in Earth's ice masses occurred in the Northern Hemisphere where much of the Earth's land surface presently resides, it is hypothesized that ...

There are few other places on Earth where the raw power of nature is ... is a truly unique travel experience. Fragments of ice break off the nearby glacier and drift down to the beach.