A team of astrophysicists, geoscientists, chemists and life scientists affiliated with a host of institutions in Japan has ...

Beautiful planet in space. Earth-like planet and a star. Realistic exoplanet illuminated by the sun. Carl Sagan described the Earth, as imaged by Voyager 1 at a distance of 6 billion ...

Heat Absorption and Distribution Oceans play a colossal role in regulating Earth's climate by absorbing and distributing heat ...

For now, life thrives on our oxygen-rich planet. But Earth’s atmosphere won’t always be so welcoming. In fact, scientists ...

Earth’s ice caps exist due to a rare combination of cooling processes. Without these, Earth would likely remain warm and ...

Earth's oceans may have been green for billions of years until the first photosynthetic organisms flooded our atmosphere with ...

Earth’s green period, which lasted from around 3 billion years to 600 million years ago, probably shaped the evolution of the cyanobacteria that filled the atmosphere with breathable quantities ...

A new study from scientists at Nagoya University in Japan analyzes how the Earth ... in the atmosphere, in conjunction with the reflection and scattering across the expanse of the ocean ...

Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from ...