This research highlights the evolving nature of science and deepens our connection to Earth’s history. Armed with advanced ...

The existence of “Snowball Earth” is now widely accepted, but the idea ice coverage was universal is so extraordinary and ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet like a giant snowball. This global deep freeze, known as Snowball Earth ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

Distrust in science and facts has always been around. Whether it was the debate about evolution or the age of the Earth, when science and belief are in conflict, people tend to lean into discrediting ...

Everyone’s focused on the risk of this object one day hitting Earth, but just getting close to us may do extreme things to it ...

Orbital,” by Samantha Harvey, won the 2024 Booker Prize on Tuesday. The book follows a day in the life of six astronauts.

The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the overlying tectonic crust—as set out in science textbooks for decades—but may instead behave differently. This is the conclusion of ...

Nov. 5, 2024 — 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 slushy planet. Results provide the first direct ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

Deep Ocean Clues to a Million-Year-Old Ice Age Puzzle Revealed in New Study Nov. 8, 2024 — A new study challenges theories regarding the origins of a significant transition through the Earth's ...