A comet is visiting Earth for the first time in 80,000 years, and you can see it this fall. Comet C/2023 A3, also known as Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, was first discovered in 2023. Its last trip to our planet ...

Last year was the hottest year since records have been kept—by a large margin—data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) shows. The average global temperature in 2023 was 1.46 degrees C ...

Berkeley Earth’s global temperature report for 2023 revealed it to be the hottest year on record since 1850. From an increase in fossil fuel emissions — including carbon dioxide and methane — to the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. After a few years of speeding up, our planet now appears to ...

The world’s major climate agencies have weighed in, and it’s clear that 2023 was the hottest year on record by a long shot. Last year was 0.15 degree Celsius (0.27 degree Fahrenheit) above the ...

From sea levels to heat to greenhouse gas emissions, the Earth again “shattered” record highs in 2023, according to a closely watched scientific assessment of global climate trends released Thursday. ...

NASA is closely monitoring a building-sized asteroid as it makes its closest approach to Earth today, among a group of five other space rocks passing by our planet over the next two days. The asteroid ...