Ancient volcanoes in the Arctic may have trapped Earth in repeated "Snowball Earth" freezes for 56 million years.

First, what is an ice age? It’s when the Earth has cold temperatures for a long time – millions to tens of millions of years – that lead to ice sheets and glaciers covering large areas of its surface.

A Europe-wide collaboration has unveiled the longest continuous record of Earth’s climate and atmospheric conditions, ...

The Sturtian glaciation was one of the most extreme climate events in Earth’s history. Beginning around 717 million years ago ...

Scientists have identified the Yarrabubba impact crater in Western Australia as the Earth's oldest, dating back 2.229 billion ...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed a new method which could help scientists perform large-scale climate ...

Mars is half the size of Earth, with one-tenth of our planet’s mass, and at the nearest point in its orbit is over 33 million miles away. Yet new research highlights the extraordinary influence the ...

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. For the first time since 1972, NASA is putting science experiments on the moon in ...

Scientists are drilling deep into East Antarctica for ancient ice. This ice holds air bubbles from Earth's past. The Beyond ...

Tiny crystals hidden inside an ancient bone forced scientists to redraw the timeline of a famous Homo juluensis tool site.