The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

Unearthing a relic from the Cold War era, NASA’s Operation IceBridge has discovered Camp Century, a clandestine US military ...

As the map shows, the naked land beneath the Antarctic ice sheet is a rugged land, covered in mountain ranges, gorges, and jagged terrain. Remarkably, one part of the bed found under the Byrd Glacier ...

Scientists have uncovered how massive underwater waves triggered by iceberg calving secretly fuel glacier melt in Greenland.

Earth's mantle is so gooey, it takes eons for material that has been displaced by the weight of ice sheets to flow back. And ...

Astronomers say the finding is a major advance in understanding how comets and planets form across the Galaxy.

Spraying particles into Earth's atmosphere to try and cool a warming planet might sound like a good idea in theory, but it ...

A strong solar flare-up could bring auroras to the far north, and might even be visible in some U.S. states on Wednesday.

2024 may have been Earth's hottest year in at least 125,000 years, according to a grim climate report published Wednesday (Oct. 29) that describes our world as "on the brink" and warns its "vital ...

Scientists are now warning that the ice could melt enough this century to re-expose toxic waste—including fuel, sewage, and ...

From communications outages to a brush with nuclear war, solar events like flares and coronal mass ejections have shaped ...

NASA scientists recently discovered the abandoned Camp Century, a Cold War-era U.S. military base, hidden under the ice in ...