Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.
Earth and Saturn might be a lot more similar than previously thought. In a new study, a team of researchers suggests that 466 ...
Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...
Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.
Earth will have another moon by the end of October, scientists revealed Monday, as a small asteroid will be captured by our ...
It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...
A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout Earth.
Volcanoes spewing carbon dioxide 250 million years ago heated the climate so much that extreme El Niño events became the norm ...
About 252 million years ago, extreme El Niño ocean warming events were a major driver of the largest mass extinction in our ...
Playground,” Powers’s new novel, aims to do for the oceans what “The Overstory” did for trees, shaking us out of our human ...
Antarctica is covered by a miles-thick ice sheet, but was that always the case? And when was the coldest continent ice-free?