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 ...

Mars' global magnetic field may have hung around for 200 million years longer than scientists had thought, possibly giving ...

study finds If Earth barges through the meteoroid streams, a portion may blaze through our planet's atmosphere as meteor ...

Crossing them may lead to irreversible damage to the Earth's stability and resilience ... According to him, 'the basic calculation is: given a certain number of people on the planet and the planetary ...

With eight billion people, we use a lot of the Earth's resources in ways that are likely unsustainable. Klaus Hubacek, ...

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

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

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

We know from The Lord of the Rings that Tolkien crafted endless stars in his legendarium, but are there other planets too?

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

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.