Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

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 ...

The new study suggests that the planet experienced a swift and intense melting phase following the last global ice age. At ...

The findings suggest vast rivers of glacial meltwater rushed into the sea, pooling over dense salty ocean water.

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 ...

The National Academy of Sciences has deemed planetary defense ... al opt for the method of sticking a nuke inside an ...

Results from a new study provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the "slushy" planet – otherwise known as the ...

According to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ... by ancient glaciers during the planet's Cryogenian ("Snowball Earth") period about 700 to 635 million ...

Drabon and her team’s findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. During the time of ...

Between 1.8 billion and 800 million years ago, earthly life was in the doldrums. During this period, called the "boring ...

Harvard researchers found that when a meteorite nicknamed S2 paid a visit to our planet 3 billion years ago, it may have ...

The asteroid which struck Earth 66 million years ago wiped the dinosaurs off the planet (at least until John Hammond ...