Humans Arrived in the Final Minutes of Earth’s “Year” — And the Future Holds Astonishing Events ...

Francesco S. R. Pausata is at the Center for the Study and Simulation of Climate at the Regional Scale and GEOTOP (Research Center on the Dynamics of the Earth System), Department of Earth and ...

Tiny bits of Earth’s atmosphere have been drifting to the moon for billions of years, guided by Earth’s magnetic field. Rather than blocking particles, the magnetic field can funnel them along ...

In the whole history of Earth's climate, few events are as extreme as those that geologists call "Snowball Earth." "These are times when geologic evidence indicates Earth froze over, essentially from ...

A sweeping history of humanity's most fundamental creation—the home—and its effects on the land, cities, and people ...

Earth’s Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for scientists. During earlier and later time periods, tectonic plates kept a steady ...

Earth is fortunate in having a magnetic field: it protects the planet and its life from harmful cosmic radiation. Other planets in our solar system—such as Mars—are constantly bombarded by charged ...