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

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

"Without Mars, Earth's orbit would be missing major climate cycles. What would humans and other animals even look like if ...

Researchers find that shifts in Earth’s orbit can trigger abrupt climate changes, even in warm periods without ice sheets.

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

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

As Earth’s climate changes, one of the hardest things to figure out is exactly how the planet will change in response. And ...

Spanning billions of years, lunar soil could store a chemical record of ancient gases—materials that may one day support ...

This doesn’t mean Mars causes ice ages on its own. Orbital cycles are only part of the picture. Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...

Youth climate activists flocked to Tallahassee Thursday to back legislation that would protect Floridians from being taken ...

To fully understand the impact of 2025 being Earth’s third-warmest year in modern history, NBC Connecticut reached out to ...

Mars’s gravity shapes ice ages on Earth, new research finds - 'Without Mars, Earth’s orbit would be missing major climate ...