Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Earth was a frozen wasteland. Then, rising CO2 caused a catastrophic thaw, turning Earth into a "slushy" planet.

The nether world, the underground, has been a space of curiosity, myth and imagination, whether cast as Hell or as a site of ...

Operating at altitudes above 99% of the Earth's atmosphere, NASA's ER-2 aircraft is the agency's highest-flying airborne ...

St. Helens’ mountain recovery shows how gophers and fungi revived barren land. They spurred long-lasting ecological regrowth ...

The gradual improvement seen in the past two decades shows that international efforts to curb ozone-destroying chemicals are ...

So far in this series, we’ve talked about man-made byproducts — Fordite, which is built-up layers of cured car enamel, and Trinitite, which was created during the first nuclear bomb ...

In fact, if there was no ozone layer at all, we wouldn’t be able to live on Earth. To answer that, we only have to look at one of our closest neighbours, Mars. As far as we’re aware ...

Thanks to a new study proves that Earth's inner core since 2010 has been rotating more slowly than usual. This intriguing ...

These chemicals led to the destruction of ozone molecules and depleted the layer that protects all life on Earth. One key concern was the large “hole” which was opening in the ozone layer each year ...

Many parts of the country have recorded no sunshine at all this month."Anticyclonic gloom" has been blamed for the dreary conditions of fog, drizzle and low cloud.One of the worst affected areas has ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.