A new study reports that the melting of glacial ice and ice sheets has resulted in a rise in the planet’s sea level, the highest in the past 6,000 years.

A new study suggests that methane-consuming microbes living on rocks in the deep sea could be preventing the greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere.

A comet the size of a small mountain on its way by the sun will pass both the Mars and Earth at incredibly close distances.

Astronomers are preparing for a rare flyby of a comet that will come within 87,000 miles of Mars on October 19.

NASA’s MAVEN is now beaming back data from the initial phase of its mission.

Past predictions of atmospheric CO2 levels for present-day found to overshoot currently measured levels by 17 percent, over estimation could be accounted for by a change in the way plants process CO2.

The European Space Agency hopes that their Rosetta Mission, which has successfully put a satellite in orbit around a comet, will give them more answers about their target Comet 67P.

An MIT team recently studied Amsterdam nonprofit Mars One’s plan for Red Planet colonization, finding it feasible but highly expensive.