Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet's equator, ...

Ancient rocks from Greenland, Canada and Hawaii preserve a rare chemical fingerprint that may come from the Earth before the ...

The view of Earth from space is famously familiar—bright blue ocean, swirling gyres of white clouds, touches of terrestrial ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Quasi-moons are not real moons and don't actually orbit the Earth, although they sometimes appear to do so for short periods of time, Phil Nicholson, professor of astronomy at Cornell University, told ...

Scientists are seriously considering mimicking volcanic eruptions to mitigate global warming, but that comes with more than a ...

When the balance in reflectivity shifts, “the whole circulation of the climate will shift in order to transport energy from ...

This quasi-moon is expected to remain in its current near-Earth orbit for about another 60 years before the gravitational tug ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

The Earth is reflecting less light than it used to, especially the Northern Hemisphere. While climate change is to blame, the ...

Scientists uncover remnants of proto-Earth buried beneath continents, providing rare isotopic evidence that rewrites how our ...

Astronomers have discovered a small asteroid that has been quietly accompanying Earth on its journey around the sun for the ...