It seems that these days all we hear about is the tragic impact our actions are having on planet earth. With billions of tons ...

Researchers found the first statistically significant evidence that global warming is accelerating. It's been topic of intense scientific inquiry for years.

Decades of satellite observations show that Earth's vegetation forms a moving balance point across continents and seasons.

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.

The pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, a new study published today in Geophysical Research Letters has ...

Finding Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars and identifying signs of life such as oxygen or water is a major goal in ...

Space is full of real wonders, but the loudest stories are often the least accurate. Old movies, half-remembered school facts ...

The last backwards idea is that a Venus-Jupiter conjunction is a once-in-a-lifetime miracle. On average, the pair comes close about once a year, though not always in a friendly spot. Many meetings are ...

By treating their vision of AI as inevitable rather than a choice, big tech leaders seek to pull the ultimate con job.

Earth's core is mostly made of the metals iron and nickel, but it also contains lighter elements like hydrogen, oxygen and silicon. CharlesC via Wikimedia Commons under CC-BY-3.0 How Earth got its ...