Scientists are closer than ever to reviving the woolly mammoth—through an elephant-mammoth hybrid—and this isn’t just about scientific curiosity. These Ice Age icons could help preserve permafrost and ...

Earth has been in a constant temperature battle long before humanity was even an idea. Our green planet has warmed and cooled at regular intervals for millions of years, resulting in the world we see ...

Amid busy construction crews racing to build an airport in Mexico, scientists are unearthing more and more mammoth skeletons in what has quickly become one of the world's biggest concentrations of the ...

Titan's shadow will fall on Saturn in the early hours of Sept. 20, one day before the world shines at opposition in Earth's ...

Hippos in Ice Age Germany? New research reveals that these warm-loving giants roamed central Europe far later than believed.

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, revealing how rare and vulnerable our temperate moment is. Some 4 billion ...

Ancient ocean grains show Earth’s carbon levels were far lower than expected during key evolutionary eras. The results challenge old theories of life’s rise and hint at patterns that could shape our ...

What if our understanding of Uranus and Neptune's compositions have been wrong, specifically regarding their classifications ...

The tourists stopped to spread picnic blankets at a scenic point overlooking the picturesque lake of Lough Tay in Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains. But the four scientists trekked on, climbing toward the ...

We actually know very little about what's going on inside Uranus and Neptune, causing researchers to propose that these ...

Scientists have shown that Earth’s basic chemistry solidified within just three million years of the Solar System’s formation. Initially, the planet was barren and inhospitable, missing water and ...