A patch of the Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland is cooling while much of the world warms. The origin of this "cold blob ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...

Rain comes when water molecules in the atmosphere clump together to form ice crystals or water droplets that are heavy enough to fall to the ground. But what causes that clumping to happen?

Hot air holds more moisture than cold air. That simple truth, while familiar to anyone who’s used a blow dryer or walked ...

Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, has always been abundant in Earth's crust, but elemental diatomic oxygen ...

Earth lives in a shooting gallery, with small and large rocky bodies in abundance in our solar system. Are we in danger of ...

Scientists were initially given less than a week to prepare for the loss of microwave observations that are key in detecting ...

Less research on environmental risks means we will be forced to operate with an incomplete understanding of those risks.

Astronomers have added two more exoplanets to a growing study aimed at finding out whether rocky worlds near small, faint ...

Earth’s atmosphere now has more carbon dioxide in it than it has in millions — and possibly tens of millions — of years, according to data released Thursday by the National Oceanic and ...

Saturn’s moon Titan has always stood out among the celestial bodies in our solar system. It is the only moon with a thick, ...

However, a 2021 NASA study found that the excess of incoming sunlight over outgoing radiation, known as Earth’s energy ...