The only thing scarier than a Xenomorph is this: One hundred years in the future, we're still watching Ice Age: Continental Drift. Without context, the reference might not make a lick of sense.

Hundreds of millions of Americans are presently besieged by a massive arctic blast and winter storm. Luckily for them, it will only be temporary. That wasn't the case 20,000 years ago... Between ...

Earth’s ice ages have long been blamed on subtle wobbles in our own orbit, but new research suggests a distant accomplice is quietly helping to set the tempo. Mars, sitting millions of miles away and ...

Around 20,000 years ago, Earth was very, very cold. Global temperatures were 10 degrees Fahrenheit colder than they are today and most of North America was covered in ice. That ice was almost half a ...

Mars is half the size of Earth, with one-tenth of our planet’s mass, and at the nearest point in its orbit is over 33 million miles away. Yet new research highlights the extraordinary influence the ...

Scientists have uncovered a missing feedback in Earth’s carbon cycle that could cause global warming to overshoot into an ice age. As the planet warms, nutrient-rich runoff fuels plankton blooms that ...

When the fictional past meets the fictional future. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. - Alien: Earth’s Premiere Is Wild, But We ...

Here are some ways the world might end in ice, according to science fiction. Earth freezes. Humankind’s remnants huddle in ice caves, fending off giant alien monsters (Snowball Earth). Or people ...