By determining which ice sheets melted to create a colossal increase in sea levels 14,500 years ago, scientists hope to ...

Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

A major breakthrough in space science has revealed the age of the Moon’s biggest and oldest crater—the South Pole–Aitken (SPA ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Since it opened 11 years ago, Branched Oak Observatory near Raymond has never sustained significant damage from a storm.

Between 15,000 and 8,000 years ago, the Earth experienced significant climatic changes, including the rapid retreat of ice ...

When our solar system swirled through this structure millions of years ago, it may have received an increased flow of ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents deported fewer immigrants in February than they did under the Biden administration during the same month a year ago, according to ICE data obtained by ...

Climate change is already causing all sorts of problems on Earth, but soon it will be making a mess in orbit around the planet too, a new study finds. MIT researchers calculated that as global ...

This area was hit by a meteorite 19 to 42 miles across around 2.2billion years ago. Craters can tell us a lot about the Earth’s history (Picture: Getty Images/500px Plus) When what is now known ...

Tajika and his team used a numerical model to simulate key aspects of biological, geological and chemical changes during the late Archean eon (3.0–2.5 billion years ago) of Earth's geologic history.