This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

Solar flares are giant explosions that occur in a localized regions of the sun's atmosphere, typically originating from ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

Plenty of other Tolkien books and box sets are featured in the B2G1 Free Book Sale at Amazon, including The Lord of the Rings ...

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

“Earth was largely a water world,” with only ... rock and silt that eroded from tsunami-lashed islands. A schematic illustration showing the environmental disruption—and subsequent recovery ...

This meteorite, designated as S2, is roughly 200 times larger than the Chicxulub responsible for the dinosaurs’ extinction.

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

Four large asteroids will make their closest approaches to Earth on Thursday, each passing by the planet within a 24-hour time frame. Two had already zipped past early in the morning, according to ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

In space exploration, long-distance optical links can now be used to transmit images, films and data from space probes to ...