Scientists in Antarctica have inaugurated the world’s first global repository of mountain ice cores, aiming to preserve vital records of Earth’s atmospheric history as glaciers rapidly melt due to glo...
Oceanographers studying the Atlantic Ocean are revisiting an old assumption using newer data and slower, more detailed analysis. For decades, researchers believed the Atlantic lacked a true equatorial...
For a long time, the end of the Ice Age felt like a slow fading rather than a sharp break. Mammoths vanished. Old ways of living disappeared. The climate lurched colder again, without much warning. Ar...
A piece of space debris is the focus of the closest attention of astronomers worldwide as scientists evaluate a rare, but very dramatic, option. A collision of asteroid 2024 YR4, approximately 60 metr...