Stars move, and now this paper is showing not only that they move, but they encounter drastic changes,” said Boston University space physicist Merav Opher, whose most recent research proposes that ...

A massive comet trail may have caused climate upheaval on Earth more than 12,000 years ago, sparking the Younger Dryas.

A study has suggested that this motion of our star through the galaxy potentially takes us through regions of space that ...

Amazon dieback”, as this grim scenario is known, is just one example of what climate scientists refer to as a tipping point: ...

As the Solar System drifts through the Milky Way, it occasionally encounters regions of space capable of reshaping Earth’s environment. Millions of years ago, one such passage may have dramatically ...

Satellites, including those used for GPS and communications, will face greater risks in coming decades during solar-triggered ...

The satellite is fully functional, providing valuable data, and may soon be burned up in our atmosphere out of choice.

Peat fires and the climate puzzle While incorporating peatland fire feedbacks into Earth system models (ESMs) is essential for accurate climate projections, most existing models lack a ...

Credit: Dr Zhen Xu. The collapse of tropical forests during Earth's most catastrophic extinction event was the primary cause of the prolonged global warming which followed, according to new research.

A team of U.K. researchers are planning to melt some of the oldest ice on Earth in an ambitious bid to reconstruct up to 1.5 million years of our planet’s climate history. In doing so, they ...