This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

The raw photo data captured by the spacecraft's JunoCam during a recent flyby was processed by citizen scientists using color-enhancing ... November 7, 2024: When photographer Josh Dury traveled ...

Hurricane Rafael, intensifying to a Category 3, hit western Cuba, bringing extensive power outages and halting flights. It ...

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

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

Our merry band of heliocentric heretics welcomes a new member into their fold. And I think they've got a winner. I liked ...

Researchers have discovered strong evidence from rocks in Colorado that Earth was covered in ice and snow around 700 million years ago, a period known as 'Snowball Earth'. The study, led by the ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

A "bus-sized" asteroid being tracked by NASA will zoom safely past the Earth on Wednesday as both celestial objects make a close approach while orbiting around the sun. The space rock, known as ...

Earth and environmental sciences cover all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences, and broadly encompasses solid Earth processes, surface and atmospheric dynamics, Earth system history, climate ...

Earth’s warming could trigger sweeping changes in the natural world that would be hard, if not impossible, to reverse. At the U.N. climate conference in Azerbaijan, world leaders are gathered in ...