A study has suggested that this motion of our star through the galaxy potentially takes us through regions of space that ...

A massive comet trail may have caused climate upheaval on Earth more than 12,000 years ago, sparking the Younger Dryas.

As the Solar System drifts through the Milky Way, it occasionally encounters regions of space capable of reshaping Earth’s environment. Millions of years ago, one such passage may have dramatically ...

Life Peculiar plant could help us reconstruct ancient Earth’s climate Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

A team of U.K. researchers are planning to melt some of the oldest ice on Earth in an ambitious bid to reconstruct up to 1.5 million years of our planet’s climate history. In doing so, they ...