Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

Researchers have uncovered that both ocean currents and atmospheric changes contribute equally to a cold patch in the North Atlantic. While global temperatures continue to rise, one area in the ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has collected data that evidences the theoretical “helicity barrier,” where turbulent dissipation behaves strangely.

Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an ...

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

The catastrophic event, which occurred 252 million years ago, wiped out nearly 90 per cent of all life on Earth, both on land ...

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 ...

This is Earth’s energy budget, and it’s now well and truly out of balance. Our recent research found this imbalance has more than doubled over the last 20 years.

Earth's energy imbalance has more than doubled in the last 20 years, reaching 1.3 W/m2 About 90% of excess heat from this imbalance is absorbed by the oceans Climate models underestimated the ...

A physicist solves an old thermodynamic puzzle and demonstrates directly from the second law that entropy disappears at ...

A large wildfire has broken out south of Athens, forcing evacuations and road closures near the ancient Temple of Poseidon. The fire erupted Thursday during Greece's first summer heatwave, with ...