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

The cool conditions which have allowed ice caps to form on Earth are rare events in the planet's history and require many ...

Extensive evidence, including global temperature and sea ice data, shows Earth's climate is changing due to human activity.

Students at a Somerset County charter school had an out of this world experience Tuesday while questioning a U.S. astronaut stationed aboard the International Space Station. NASA astronaut Nick Hague ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named 2024 ... the asteroid would enter the atmosphere.” ...

Auroras occur when solar wind interacts with Earth's magnetic field.The charged particles from the sun collide with gases in the upper atmosphere, such as oxygen and nitrogen, transferring energy ...

Dr. Kelly Miller from the South West Research Institute and Lead author of a paper about Titan’s atmosphere said “While just 40% the diameter of the Earth, Titan has an atmosphere 1.5 times as dense ...

Heat Absorption Oceans play a crucial role in absorbing excess heat generated by greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, they take in over 90% of this heat, acting as a massive buffer against global ...

Japanese scientists have created the first-ever long-term dataset about Earth's entire atmosphere, stretching all the way to space. They hope the project will help shed light on some little ...

There's a lot more to Earth than meets the eye. Far from being just a roundish rock barreling through space, our planet is composed of several layers held together by intense forces of gravity.

Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds," may have just been discovered deep within the mantle, thanks to a new way of mapping the inside of our planet.