And the current amount of carbon dioxide in the air is heating up our planet to the point of unprecedented climate changes.

Ice cores that record 1.2 million years of Earth’s atmosphere are on their way to Europe to be analysed, and an Australian ...

Scientists predict that Earth will undergo a mass extinction in 250 million years, wiping out all mammals due to extreme heat ...

Only the hardy carbon-rich asteroids make it to Earth, after surviving the Sun’s heat and the fiery burnup that occurs when ...

An international team of researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions—and it could change our ...

It has long been suspected that carbonaceous materials are too weak to survive the fiery plunge through the atmosphere. But ...

The researchers reached the conclusion by studying 7,982 meteoroid trajectories and 540 potential meteorite falls.

CO2 levels spiked in La Palma, Spain, after the 2021 Cumbre Vieja eruption. But a novel network of CO2 detectors is helping ...

Only 30%-50% of the remaining objects survive the atmospheric passage and become meteorites. The debris pieces whose orbits bring them closer to the Sun tend to be significantly more durable, making ...

Researchers may have answered one of space science's long-running questions -- and it could change our understanding of how life began. Carbon-rich asteroids are abundant in space yet make up less ...