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A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today ...
The solar system floats inside a vast, million-degree hot bubble—an invisible cocoon of thin gas that glows in X-ray light. Known as the Local Hot Bubble (LHB), this low-density cavity stretches more ...
Palm trees in Alaska, crocodiles in Wyoming: Fossils show that Earth’s temperature has changed over hundreds of millions of years. Now a new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of ...
A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth’s surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. In a paper ...
Furthest? Yes, that is correct! Earth and the sun reached this point at 3:55 p.m. on Thursday. At that point in its orbit, the Earth was 94.5 million miles away from the sun.
Earth’s average surface temperature spanned 51.8 degrees Fahrenheit to 96.8 degrees Fahrenheit through the Phanerozoic, with the planet being in the warmer temperature range more often, overall ...
Is the Moon’s slow retreat from Earth a cosmic time bomb in our planet’s relationship or an entry to the precision of modern ...
The claim: Sea ice and temperature data show climate change is a hoax A Jan. 29 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) shows heat maps of the U.S. and makes a series of claims about climate and ...