Earth’s path around the Sun is not a fixed racetrack but a slowly shifting orbit, and those subtle changes have a long history of reshaping the planet’s climate. As astronomers refine how these ...

Earth's climate has swung between ice ages and warmer periods for millions of years, driven by subtle changes in our planet's ...

Imagine Earth covered in thick sheets of ice. And sea levels so low you could walk to a different continent. This is what our ...

Cosmic dust can tell scientists about how ice covered Earth during the last ice age. This dust is leftover debris from asteroids and comets... What space dust reveals about Earth's ice age Around ...

The Ice Age was a world locked in endless winter, where massive glaciers crept across continents and woolly mammoths roamed ...

A new study highlights the key role the Southern Ocean plays in the Earth’s climate system. Around 12,000 years ago, the last ...

Scientists trace ancient deep-sea changes in the Southern Ocean to explain how rising CO₂ helped warm Earth after the last ...

Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris flows preserved from a time when the planet’s climate dramatically shifted.

NEW YORK — If you've seen any of the "Ice Age" animated Disney movies, we have some bad news: You don't know the real ice age. It was an incredible time when the Earth was going through immense ...