Earth’s path around the Sun is not a fixed racetrack but a slowly shifting orbit, and those subtle changes have a long ...

A one-metre-long core of calcite extracted from a cave wall in the southwestern United States has offered researchers a rare ...

In the depths of Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, a team of divers has uncovered extraordinary fossil remains from two ...

Researchers bundled in down jackets toiled around the clock in these snowy tunnels as a massive drill rig churned downward to extract core samples and the secrets they contain from the deepest ...

What killed the woolly mammoths and mastodons? It was not just the changing climate, but a cosmic event that triggered a ...

Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time.

The Met Office has issued a series of weather warnings for snow and ice amid a cold snap. A yellow warning for ice will be ...

Several parts of the country will experience wintry conditions in the coming days, with snowfall expected to hit Scotland by the early hours of Tuesday morning, forecasters said ...

The '90s have become a distinct pillar of nostalgia as the decade gets older, and these movies act as a definitive ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

The UK Health Security Agency has upgraded a yellow cold weather health alert to amber in parts of the North of England. The ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...