Their Latin name means "night shining" and the clouds usually appear as streaks of blue or silver. The Met Office describes ...

Climate change left its signature on the atmosphere early in the industrial revolution, reveals a thought experiment ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

Understanding where and in what quantities essential elements for life have existed on Earth's surface helps explain the ...

In the early 1990s, eight people tried to survive in a hermetically sealed glass structure filled with miniature forests, ...

Life on Earth has always depended on nitrogen. As a building block of proteins and DNA, nitrogen is essential to all living ...

"Until now, it was assumed that life on the early Earth, before the atmosphere was enriched with oxygen, was limited by a ...

This extraordinary event is known as a sprite — or “farfadet” in French — one of the rarest forms of Transient Luminous ...

New research shows how Mars may have undone its own habitability, while Earth stayed stable enough to support life.

YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...

Why is Mars barren and uninhabitable, while life has always thrived here on our relatively similar planet Earth? A discovery ...

The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall ...