When a satellite disintegrates in the upper atmosphere, it does not just disappear. Rather, it deposits a record of aluminum ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment ...

"Being off even a little bit represents hundreds or thousands of kilometers in distance on the surface of the Earth." ...

Ancient carbon surges depleted ocean oxygen and stalled marine life, and new research warns today’s emissions could cause a ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

The team of scientists has noticed that the imbalance of the heat trapped on the Earth’s surface is now double what it was ...

Understanding how wildfires influence our planet's climate is a daunting challenge. Although fire occurs nearly everywhere on ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

A walk in the desert and a curious discovery could have revealed that the secrets of alien life grow in the harshest ...

When the Earth froze over, where did life shelter? MIT scientists say one refuge may have been pools of melted ice that ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, ...