But few know that the Earth is spinning faster than usual. This faster spin has made some recent days the shortest since modern clocks began measuring time.On July 9, the day was 1.34 milliseconds ...

Earth. Created by showrunner Noah Hawley, the new series joining the iconic franchise imagines the planet's bleak future ...

How much carbon can the ocean absorb, and what happens to it as the planet warms? Sonya Dyhrman, a microbial oceanographer ...

Why Antarctica is not just about penguins, snow, and scientific research: what political confrontation involving Russia and ...

As the Earth warms and soils dry out, underground fires are becoming more of a concern for the environment and for public ...

Scientists at Cornell University have discovered that conditions in the atmosphere of a distant exoplanet, WASP-17b, could ...

The orbit of the Moon is slightly slanted with respect to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. If the two were the same, we would get a lunar and solar eclipse every month. Instead, they tend to ...

The Trump administration's proposal to roll back the endangerment finding includes many misleading and inaccurate claims.

By simulating the movement of two continent-sized Big Lower-Mantle Basal Structures, or BLOBs, researchers may have uncovered ...

A Harvard astronomer is suggesting that an interstellar object nearing Earth could be an engineered object — rather than a ...

The days have been slowly shortening since the Summer Solstice in June, but the change becomes more apparent here in southern ...

Countries are gathering in Geneva from Aug. 5 to 14, with the hopes of passing a legally binding global agreement on plastic ...