About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

New satellite launched by ESA uses Infrared Sounder instrument to form the most detailed map of Earth's atmosphere.

To understand what Americans are experiencing with this winter blast, we need to look more than 20 miles above the surface of ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising mechanism that may explain how Earth cooled dramatically after the age of dinosaurs.

A view of one part of the Paleontology collection in the Museum of Natural History, arranged by the addition of representative specimens from other parts of the three floors of fossils in the East ...

It's cold in Chicago, but how does Friday's brutal temperatures compare to some of the coldest places on Earth?

Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.