Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it ...

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During the last ice age, the Atlantic Ocean’s powerful current system remained active and continued to transport warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic despite extensive ice cover ...

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The findings potentially solve the paradox of how liquid water seems to have persisted on Mars even when the climate grew too cold.

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Hottest year on record,” “Hottest decade ever,” “Earth enters uncharted climate territory.” The repetition has become so ...

Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end of ...

Researchers were able to sequence the full genome from the 14,000-year-old chunk of preserved woolly rhinoceros meat.

Sputnik skies to analysis of interstellar visitors, scientists are rethinking how and where to look for physical traces of ...