We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

The Earth as a planet can sustain life, because of the presence of Hydrogen and Oxygen, or in more simple terms, the presence of water. Scientists seek evidence of life on other planets by looking ...

The water cycle refers to the complex system by which water moves around the Earth. Water evaporates from the ground — including from lakes, rivers and plants — and rises into the atmosphere ...

Much progress is possible. In fact, due to the dedicated efforts of governments and NGOs since the 1992 Earth Summit, safe drinking water has been made available to some 1.7 billion people around ...

The source of Earth's water is an enduring mystery that extends to exoplanets and the notion of habitability. In broad terms, Earth's water was either part of the planet from the beginning of its ...

An asteroid struck Mars 11 million years ago and sent pieces of the red planet hurtling through space. One of these chunks of Mars eventually crashed into the Earth and is one of the few meteorites ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. By pumping water out of the ground, humans have shifted such a large mass ...

The Earth may not have been born dry, but wet, with water reservoirs from the Big Bang stored within its foundational rocks. A new study uses data from the European Space Agency 's (ESA ...

The overheating of our planet and resulting changes to climates across the globe are bad news for much of life on Earth — but ...

Researchers say climate change has the potential to increase mosquito numbers and the transmissibility of mosquito-borne ...