Recent scientific discoveries have unearthed evidence of a cataclysmically destroyed planet, fragments of which contributed ...

Earth’s climate balance isn’t just governed by the slow weathering of silicate rocks, which capture carbon and stabilize temperature over eons. New research reveals that biological and oceanic ...

A chemical "anomaly" revealed through an analysis of meteorites may have led to finding the first existing evidence of "proto ...

This is the message of the sixth issue of the annual "State of the Climate" report. The report was prepared by an ...

Hidden deep in ancient rocks, scientists have found the surviving traces of Earth’s first form—unchanged for 4.5 billion ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

Earth's systems are nearing tipping points that could plunge the planet into a "hothouse" regime — but there's still time to ...

Those space tornadoes can still harm Earth’s electrical grids and digital systems. Recently, researchers including UM climate and space scientist Chip Manchester designed a completely new simulation ...

A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Climate change and human-made shelters have created survivable habitat for the cold-adapted mosquito species Culiseta ...

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This ...

About 50 light-years from Earth, a gas giant about half the mass of Jupiter orbits a sunlike star. The discovery of Pegasi 51 b ushered in a new era of exoplanet research.