According to NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), 2020 tied 2016 for being the hottest year on record!
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Like Earth, Mars has experienced periods of extreme glaciation or ice sheet coverage, which are known as ice ages. As…
Humanity can have a love/hate relationship with itself, but there's no denying that we're the pinnacle of evolution on Earth…
We can thank NASA's New Horizons spacecraft for opening our eyes up to Pluto's complexity. On July 14th, 2015, the…
Modern astronomical telescopes are extraordinarly powerful. And we keep making them more powerful. With telescopes like the Extremely Large Telescope…
Hundreds of millions of years ago, Earth went through two episodes of severe glaciation. These two episodes—the Sturtian and the…
Orbiters are giving us a chance to study the surface of Mars closely, and some of the features that pop…
An iceberg that calved off of from a larger ice formation has spent three years floating on the ocean near…
If—or hopefully when—we cut our Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, we won't notice much difference in the climate. The Earth's natural…