Building an accurate model of Earth’s climate requires a lot of data. Photography reveals the extreme efforts scientists have ...

Earth’s radiation can send some molecules spinning or vibrating, which is what makes them greenhouse gases. This infographic ...

A collection of short dispatches from the field of climate microbiology conveys the contributions that single-celled life ...

Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds.

New reconstructions of 540 million years of climate history show the planet tumbling between icehouse and hothouse states, ...

These phenomena are erratic. They interact at every scale and manifest as weather, from clear sunny days to blustery ...

Tipping points in our climate predictions are both wildly dramatic and wildly uncertain. Can mathematicians make them useful?

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

A planetary perspective on the relationship between life and energy, and the emergence of a life form whose influence extends ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A major discovery, the object confounds theories of the young cosmos.

Scientists have identified tubulin structures in primitive Asgard archea that may have been the precursor of our own cellular ...