The world’s oldest wooden spears were probably made by Neanderthals around 200,000 years ago and used to ... the latter part of their time on Earth, between 60,000 and 40,000 years ago. ...

Gray rocks uncovered in northern Nunavik, Quebec, Canada may be the ultimate primordial find. The stones date back 4.16 ...

The orange dwarf Gliese 710 is expected to come within 0.1663 light-years or 10,520 astronomical units in about 1.29 million ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Over 300 million years ago, Earth experienced powerful bursts of carbon dioxide from natural sources—like massive volcanic ...

Scientists convert Earth's magnetic field collapse from 41,000 years ago into chilling audio, revealing ancient cosmic ...

Learn about the mass extinction event 66 million years ago and the evidence for ... size of a mountain slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, ... covers nearly 200,000 square miles in layers ...

The researchers' idea that Earth once had rings comes from reconstructions of Earth's plate tectonics from the Ordovician period—which ran between 485.4 million years and 443.8 million years ago ...

By around 200,000 years ago at Schöningen, “Neandertals started to cooperate in new ways, for hunting and other complex social behaviors, probably on par with early Homo sapiens,” says Hutson ...

If you were to look up from Earth some 466 million years ago, you might have seen a gleaming ring stretching across the sky, some scientists say.