Immense glaciers once covered the entire Earth, reaching even the equator, geologists have confirmed. The discovery that this ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

The moon would then become the Earth's satellite while the other part of the pair was catapulted into space. This would ...

Space weather impacts Earth more than most realize, from creating vivid auroras to disrupting satellites. Recent high ...

In 1986, humanity got its first close look at Uranus's secrets thanks to the Voyager 2 probe. After a lengthy journey, this ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

Three Australian satellites from Curtin University’s Binar Space Program burned up in Earth’s atmosphere far earlier than ...

Researchers at Penn State University suggest that Earth’s only satellite may have come from a “binary-exchange capture” ...

It affects us on Earth in a variety of noticeable and unnoticeable ways. The most obvious is the presence of auroras. In the past few months, auroras have been visible far more intensely and closer to ...