Earth is the only place in the universe scientists known to have organics form of life inside. Now, another planet might be ...

A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the United States could be linked to Greenland ...

As summer settles in and temperatures climb in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s impossible to forget just how much the sun affects life on our planet. The sun may appear to be constant from day to ...

Furthest? Yes, that is correct! Earth and the sun reached this point at 3:55 p.m. on Thursday. At that point in its orbit, the Earth was 94.5 million miles away from the sun.

Even as Earth sets new heat records, humanity this year is pumping 330 million tons (300 million metric tons) more carbon dioxide into the air by burning fossil fuels than it did last year. It’s ...

Their findings, published in the scientific journal Chaos, reveal surprising connections between solar heat, Earth's temperature, and seismic activity. Sunspots are dark patches on the sun caused ...

Scientists predicted that Tuesday will be a fraction of a second shorter than normal as the Earth's rotation is moving faster ...

Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...

So today, the first day of summer (and the longest day of the year), we examine four myths about the summer solstice. Myth No. 1: The Seasons Change Because of the Earth's Distance From the Sun ...

Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.