Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

Right now, Earth is about 3.1 million miles farther from the sun than it is in early January when it reaches perihelion, its closest point. Compared to its average distance of 93 million miles, that’s ...

Earth's largest waterfall, Denmark Strait cataract, is located in Arctic waters between Iceland and Greenland and is roughly ...

Alone among known planets, Earth has vast oceans on its surface and its landmasses are marked with lakes and extensive river drainage systems. Water is the biosphere's lifeblood, and without it, Earth ...

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 ...

Our circumstances here on the wondrous, life-supporting Earth can give us a false understanding of what the universe is ...

Earth's average surface temperature is rising so quickly that on both a micro and macro scale, the planet is struggling to keep up —and some of its warming patterns are begetting more warming ...

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 ...

Earth’s surface temperature heating more rapidly than it has in past 485 million years, scientists say Researchers created a curve of global mean surface temperature throughout deep time, providing ...

Palm trees in Alaska, crocodiles in Wyoming: Fossils show that Earth’s temperature has changed over hundreds of millions of years. Now a new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of ...

An important paper was recently published in Science on “A 485 Million Year History of Earth’s Surface Temperature” by Emily Judd and others. This long-term record of Earth’s temperature ...

The only way for 2024 to not be the warmest year on Earth, scientists said, is if the average temperature anomaly dropped to almost zero for the remainder of the year — which is highly unlikely.