As human missions to Mars approach, the implications of pregnancy in space raise critical questions about conception, ...

For much of the planet’s recent geological history, ice ages came and went every 41,000 years. Then, during a period ...

Earth is spinning faster this summer, making the days marginally shorter and attracting the attention of scientists and timekeepers. July 10 was the shortest day of the year so far, lasting 1.36 ...

Scientists found 12,000-year-old glacier ice in the Alps, revealing new details about Europe’s climate history and human ...

When massive stars reach the end of their lives, something strange and violent happens deep inside them. As they run out of ...

‘We are hoping to unlock all these amazing secrets.’ The new core ice, which was drilled near the Concordia research station in the ‘White Continent,’ beats the previous 800,000-year-old ice, which ...

An ancient ice core from Mont Blanc has revealed 12,000 years of climate and human history, making it the oldest Alpine ice ...

These ancient cores may contain clues about an unexplained change in Earth’s glacial-interglacial cycles, and could shed ...

The ancient ice, which could be some 1.5 million years old, was retrieved from depths of up to 2,800 metres and will be ...

Jupiter, the largest planet in our Solar System, is 11 times wider than Earth, and has a mass 2.5 times greater than all of ...

An ice core that may be older than 1.5 million years has arrived in the UK where scientists will melt it to unlock vital ...