Fifty years ago, scientists sent an unusual object into space, one that looked more like a glittering disco ball than a piece of advanced technology. Yet this simple sphere, known as LAGEOS or the ...

The pace of modern life feels overwhelming. With artificial intelligence advancing by the day and environmental shifts ...

Millions of years ago, the land you’re currently sitting on was located at a completely different latitude. Your backyard crossed thousands of miles to reach its particular point on the planet, and ...

The Sturtian glaciation was one of the most extreme climate events in Earth’s history. Beginning around 717 million years ago ...

They’ve built a new online tool, Paleolatitude.org 3.0, that lets anyone click a place on Earth and see what latitude it occupied as far back as 320 million years ago. That may sound like a niche tool ...

David Attenborough poses for photographers upon his arrival for the premiere of a new series of Our Planet, at the Natural History Museum in central London, April 4, 2019.

Erin McClymont’s laboratory has six kitchen freezers, each alarmed. This is for self-preservation: when the power goes out or an appliance breaks down, she needs to act quickly to prevent the ...

Between 1926 and 2026 the Earth has almost changed beyond ...

An ocean current called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation will weaken by 50 percent by 2100. The question is ...