Apophis is the ancient Greek name for the Egyptian god of chaos Apep. The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, ...

Everyone’s focused on the risk of this object one day hitting Earth, but just getting close to us may do extreme things to it ...

A trio of physicists, two with Coventry University, in the U.K., and the third with Laboratoire National des Champs ...

"Picture yourself standing off the coast of Cape Cod, in a shelf of shallow water," said Nadja Drabon, an early Earth ...

At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet. Results provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the ...

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.

When the 'God of chaos' asteroid Apophis makes an ultraclose flyby of Earth in 2029, our planet's gravity may trigger tremors ...

Bolivia’s Quebrada Honda Basin reveals ancient climate clues from 13 million years ago, offering insights for today’s climate challenges.

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

November 5, 2024 • Black-footed ferrets are one of the most endangered mammals in North America with only an estimated 370 in the wild, according to the World Wildlife Fund.

A team discovered that, contrary to present scientific understanding, ancient volcanoes continued to spew carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from deep within the Earth long past their period of ...