Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river ...

A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a paper ...

The solar system floats inside a vast, million-degree hot bubble—an invisible cocoon of thin gas that glows in X-ray light. Known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), this low-density cavity stretches more ...

Is the Moon’s slow retreat from Earth a cosmic time bomb in our planet’s relationship or an entry to the precision of modern ...

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While previous simulations of ancient Earth's climate have put the planet's average surface temperature between 14 and 26 degrees Celsius (57.2 and 78.8 degrees Fahrenheit), the new model widens ...

If you have thought that the Earth is close to the sun in the summertime and that is why it is hotter this time of year, you will have to think again. Skip to content Fox 8 Cleveland WJW ...

Over the last 485 million years, Earth has been both a lot colder and a lot hotter than once thought. A new temperature timeline that combines geologic data with computational simulations reveals ...

PARIS—Earth’s temperature was more than 1.5 degrees Celsius warmer than the preindustrial era in the 12 months ending January, the first time temperatures averaged over a yearlong period have ...

However, at a distance of around 4 astronomical units from the Sun (AU; 1 AU is the average Sun-Earth distance of 93 million miles [150 million kilometers]), the temperature in the disk was cold ...