In 250 million years, Earth’s continents may merge into a supercontinent so extreme that most mammals would struggle to survive.

The Planetary Health Check is a key monitor of earth's vital signs—and will guide action for a more sustainable world.

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." ...

Far beyond the reach of any probe, astronomers have found a gas giant whose atmosphere behaves less like a familiar planet and more like a special effect from a big-budget space epic. Orbiting a ...

Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image of the Dickson Fjord in East Greenland. (Credit: Thomas Monahan.) (CN) — When the Earth started pulsing every 90 seconds in September 2023, scientists didn’t know ...

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.