Earth’s surface bears the scars of obvious catastrophes, from dinosaur-killing craters to lava fields, but a growing body of research suggests a quieter class of cosmic assault has been largely ...

New research suggests that for about a billion years, Earth’s rotation stayed stable at 19-hour days due to a balance between ...

Cosmic “touchdown airbursts” — explosions of comets or asteroids above Earth’s surface — may be far more common and ...

Episodes 3 and 4 of The World Between the Land and the Sea push the story into a much darker territory. A failed meeting, a ...

Welcome to Derry has reached new, horrifying depths as the series races toward its finale. Episode 7 not only revisits one of the most ...

Scientists believe they’ve found evidence that life on Earth is over a billion years older than anyone believed was realistic. New research used machine learning to scan ancient meteorites and fossils ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of Earth’s mantle and ejecting a huge debris disk that later formed the moon.

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Scientists have detected some of the oldest signs of life on Earth using a new method that recognizes chemical fingerprints of living organisms in ancient rocks, an ...

Episode 4 of It: Welcome to Derry, titled “The Great Swirling Apparatus of Our Planet’s Function,” explains the origin of Pennywise. After Dick Hallorann approaches Taniel to know the whereabouts of ...

MSU researcher Katie Maloney contributed samples of rare, exceptionally well-preserved seaweed fossils (e.g., macroscopic algae) from Yukon Territory, Canada. These fossils are almost one-billion ...