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 ...

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

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

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 ...

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 ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Immense glaciers once covered the entire Earth, reaching even the equator, geologists have confirmed. The discovery that this ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

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

Billions of years ago, long before anything resembling life as we know it existed, meteorites frequently pummeled the planet ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds light ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

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