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 ...

The release of planet-heating chemicals into the atmosphere is set to hit a record high in 2024 — with “no sign” of a peak in ...

After the moon-forming impact, Earth was a very different planet from the world we see today! Where the present-day Earth has oceans covering much of its surface, the early Earth was covered in a ...

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 geochemical evidence of the ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known universe confirmed to host life. With a radius of 3,959 miles, Earth is the ...

BAKU, Azerbaijan — Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric ...

Earth has been through this before. Not the same planetary fever exactly; it was a different world the last time, around 56 million years ago. The Atlantic Ocean had not fully opened, and animals ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere ... in humid tropical regions around the world has the potential to naturally regrow. That much forest could store ...

World Earth Day is a celebration that takes place every year on the 22nd of April. The first World Earth day began in 1970. On this day, many people raise awareness of environmental issues and ...

Climate scientists have long identified 1.5º of global temperature rise as a grave milestone for avoiding disaster ...