Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...

Israel carried out one of the most intense bombardments of the past year, as warplanes launched 70 airstrikes, Lebanese security officials said. The barrage came shortly after Hezbollah’s leader ...

The world map we know today owes its shape to the daring exploits of explorers who ventured into uncharted territories, ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s ...

Carlos Magdalena, whose botanical adventures have shades of Indiana Jones, was a driving force in saving the world’s smallest water lily and finding the largest one. He has been called the ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

New NASA research reveals a process to generate extremely accurate eclipse maps, which plot the predicted path of the Moon’s ...