Roughly 252 million years ago, Earth experienced its deadliest known extinction. Known as the Permian–Triassic Mass ...

The science behind why the Earth will spin just a little bit faster on July 9, July 22, and August 5, this year.

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects.

Unless climate change is curbed, Earth's oceans could see a mass extinction of marine life unlike anything the planet has seen for millions of years, according to a new study published Thursday.

Scientists have long agreed this event was triggered by a sudden surge in greenhouse gases which resulted in an intense and ...

Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

Earth’s largest mass extinction, often referred to as the “Great Dying,” occurred about 252 million years ago. Massive volcanic eruptions triggered catastrophic climate changes that altered ...

Melting ice changes how Earth's weight is distributed "The trend is mostly driven by the sustained mass change that is happening in the Greenland ice sheet and many glaciers around the globe ...

Earth's largest mass extinction had surprisingly little effect on the range of lifestyles seen on the planet's seafloor, despite the loss of more than 90 percent of marine species, researchers find.

Thanks to atomic clocks (and all the worldly forces that influence them), scientists know that Earth's rotation has begun to ...

Changes in where the Earth's mass is distributed can cause the axis, and the poles, to move. Melting glaciers caused a significant amount of water to shift, ...

In the Chinese science fiction film The Wandering Earth, recently released on Netflix, humanity attempts to change the Earth's orbit using enormous thrusters in order to escape the expanding sun ...