Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the ...

Today, with 8 billion humans on this planet, the few wealthy countries are extracting natural resources at alarming rates, ...

Scientists discovered microbes in Amazon peatlands that control carbon storage. If peatlands stay stable, they store carbon.

The source of more than half of all wildfires in the Western US remains unknown, so the US Forest Service has teamed up with ...

While planets circle the sun in what's called and heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...

Global temperatures in 2024 came in 2.3 degrees above the agency’s baseline with 15 consecutive months of temperature records.

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

Scientists found an intriguing world in our galaxy.

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its star's habitable zone has been discovered just 19.7 light-years away.