On Aug. 23, 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 sent back the first photo of Earth from the moon. It showed a grainy crescent Earth that predated Apollo 8's famous color "Earthrise" by over two years.

According to the DOE’s recent budget request, though, E3SM will continue to exist, but seemingly without one of its primary raisons d’etre. “Any Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) activities ...

Early Earth may not have had the right ingredients for life — until a nearby Mars-size planet crashed into it, two new ...

Can we turn to the past to learn more about how interactions between plants and pollinators changed during climate change?

Earth is so far the only known planet on which life exists—with liquid water and a stable atmosphere. However, the conditions were not conducive to life when it formed. The gas-dust cloud from which ...

The ambitious mission to retrieve samples from asteroid Bennu and return them to Earth is paying off. Just as scientists had hoped, the asteroid is revealing details about the early days of our solar ...

It was surprising, really surprising to me,” said Benjamin Santer, a climate scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, “that we could have identified with high confidence a human-caused ...

A new method allows scientists to reconstruct carbon dioxide levels and photosynthesis from fossilized tooth enamel. A ...

A previously untapped source of data sheds new light on the climate of the early Earth: fossilized dinosaur teeth show that the atmosphere during the ...

A previously untapped source of data sheds new light on the climate of the early Earth: fossilized dinosaur teeth show that ...