This is Earth's energy budget, and it's now well and truly out of balance. Our recent research found this imbalance has more than doubled over the last 20 years.

Since Kepler's laws of motion dictate that celestial bodies orbit more slowly when farther from the sun, we are now moving at ...

Global warming is a symptom of Earth’s energy imbalance, which is a measure of the difference between the total amount of heat reaching Earth from the sun, and the amount radiating back into space.

Earth is the only place in the universe scientists known to have organics form of life inside. Now, another planet might be ...

Specifically, there is an 80% chance that at least one of the next five years will see record heat, with a high likelihood that average warming will exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees ...

This event, known as aphelion, happens once per year typically around two weeks after the summer solstice in June. Although the Earth’s distance from the Sun does not affect the seasons ...

Earth Earth’s mantle may have hidden plumes venting heat from its core A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s ...

As summer settles in and temperatures climb in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s impossible to forget just how much the sun affects life on our planet. The sun may appear to be constant from day to ...

The atmosphere’s heat-trapping greenhouse gases keep some of this energy. But the burning of coal, oil and gas has now added more than of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.