Deep under Antarctic ice, a 748-foot ice core recovered by the SWAIS2C project reveals past warm, ice-free periods on the ...

Antarctic sea ice is shrinking faster than expected. New research shows how winds, ocean heat, and feedback loops caused this ...

Representing the longest continuous record of the Earth’s climate, the giant ice core may soon unlock some much-wanted data ...

An Antarctic glacier just collapsed at record speed, stunning scientists and raising fears about the future of Earth’s ice.

Our solar system is currently passing through the Local Interstellar Cloud, a region of highly diluted gas and dust between ...

Earth is quietly collecting radioactive debris from an ancient stellar explosion as our Solar System drifts through a giant ...

Gravity feels reliable—stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over Earth's surface. And it is weakest ...

"This dust can penetrate the shielding of the solar system and end up on Earth." When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Learn how traces of a rare radioactive element preserved in Antarctic ice may show that the Solar System is currently passing ...

The solar system is now at the edge of this cloud, but the massive stockpile of cosmic stardust has left signatures on ...