Researchers show the average surface temperature on our planet has shifted between 51.8 to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit ...

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 ...

Antimatter is a natural product of some types of radioactive decay and cosmic ray collisions, but it can also be made in particle colliders here on Earth ... the National Academy of Sciences ...

For decades, scientists have theorized that volcanic lightning on an early Earth played a crucial ... in the journal ...

Stanford researchers have created SandAI, an AI tool that reveals the ancient history of quartz sand grains, identifying how ...

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.

Wildfires, storms, and selective logging as major drivers of Amazon rainforest carbon emissions, surpassing clear-cutting.

One of the most fundamental questions in science is how life began on Earth. Now ... a published in the journal Proceedings ...

Running those numbers, Clarke and his co-authors estimate that of the mile-deep layer of water that may once have been the ...

Microbes, including some that cause disease, can remain viable even after long-distance travel in the upper troposphere.

How common are Earth-like exoplanets—also ... the latter of which is sponsored by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences and is a report conducted approximately ...

The astronomer and Harvard Professor Dr Dimitar Sasselov will present early Earth geochemical models ... We will happily arrange interviews with the speakers. As the German National Academy of ...