Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

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The earth (and humanity) would be very different without our smaller red neighbor. In A Nutshell Computer simulations show ...

Earth’s slow axial wobbles—known as precession cycles—do not just shape long-term climate trends. A new study led by ...

New simulations show red planet affects Milankovitch cycles that shape how solar energy is distributed on Earth over millions ...

Have you ever wondered why Earth goes through massive climate swings, from freezing ice ages to warmer periods like today?

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

What can volcanism on the early Earth teach us about the formation of life on our planet? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as an international team of ...

The National Research Council will appoint an ad hoc committee and supporting panels to carry out a decadal survey in Earth Science and Applications from Space. The study will generate recommendations ...