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2025 was the third hottest year on record and pushed Earth past a critical climate change mark, scientists say.

The Trump administration intends to dismantle one of the world's leading climate research institutions, in Boulder, Colorado, over what it said were concerns about "climate alarmism."

The footage of a bear caring for an adopted cub was captured during the annual polar bear migration along the Western Hudson Bay in Churchill, Manitoba.

Most of the footprints are elongated and made by bipeds. The best-preserved ones bear traces of at least four toes.

NASA continues to aim its space telescopes at the visiting ice ball, estimated to be up to 3.5 miles in size.

Paleontologists have discovered and documented 16,600 footprints left by theropods, the dinosaur group that includes the Tyrannosaurus rex.

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life developed on Earth, scientists say.

Kian Sadeghi, the 25-year-old founder and CEO at Nucleus Genomics, tells "CBS Mornings" that parents have every right to select the qualities and traits they desire in their child.

Ant colonies act as one "super-organism" which works to ensure the survival of all, according to a team of scientists.