Just half a degree rise of global warming will triple the size of the area of Earth that is considered to be too hot for ...

An international group of scientists, led by King's College London, has revealed how continued global warming will lead to ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Meanwhile, Mars is at "opposition" this month. That's when a planet and the sun are directly opposite each other with Earth in between. This celestial event happens about every two years for the ...

Tornados, cyclones and hurricanes wreak havoc on Earth ... building up their weather map, the team also found that the poles are cooler than the rest of the planet. There is also a slight ...

This artist’s visualisation of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly ... Further building up their weather map, the team also found that the ...

A vast alien planet has blistering winds racing around its equator at nearly 30 times the speed of sound on Earth. Lisa Nortmann at the University of Göttingen, Germany, and her colleagues used ...

The researchers who created the map already suspected there could be more hydrogen buried in Earth's crust than scientists previously thought. But now that the results are out, even the team that ...

Check your compass again — Earth’s north magnetic pole is moving toward Siberia. Since at least the early 19th century, Earth’s north magnetic pole has been situated in the Canadian Arctic ...

If a planet is visible from the night side of Earth, it’s always seen along an imaginary path through the sky called the ecliptic. This is the plane of the solar system. The ecliptic can easily ...

With TimeMap.org, you can do just that—no time machine required. This interactive history map lets you dive into the past, offering a unique way to see when, where, and how historical events ...

That’s because Pluto was downgraded from a “planet” to a “dwarf planet” in 2016 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). However, this year a powerful new telescope is coming ...