A mystery interstellar object spotted last week by astronomers could be the oldest comet ever seen, according to scientists. Named 3I/Atlas, it may be three billion years older than our own solar ...

In September 2023, a global seismic mystery began to unfold. Every 90 seconds, the Earth pulsed with a strange, low-frequency ...

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

How do you measure climate change? One way is by recording temperatures in different places over a long period of time. While ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally hot for 5 million years. Researchers say they have figured out why using a ...

Luckily, mineral physics is bringing us closer to solving the mystery. The inner core is responsible for Earth’s magnetic field, which acts like a shield, protecting us from harmful solar radiation.

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Is this just a temporary blip in our climate system or is this a long-term shift? And to answer it, scientists have to crack the mystery of the Pacific cold tongue.

The official numbers are in: 2024 is the hottest year on record. Climate change is the main culprit. But there might be something else going on, too.

Get ready for several years of even more record-breaking heat that pushes Earth to more deadly, fiery and uncomfortable extremes, two of the world's top weather agencies forecast.

Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...