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

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

A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...

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

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Pope Leo XIV included a call to action while performing mass in Castel Gandolfo, Italy. The first American pope has followed ...

Across Europe and around the world, melting glaciers are reshaping landscapes and climate systems. Researchers Elzė ...

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

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of ...

The Mass indicated a strong line of ecological continuity with Pope Francis, who made environmental protection a hallmark of ...

We should pray for the conversion of many people, in and outside of the Church, who still do not recognize the urgency of ...