Certain birds that gave rise to today’s ducks and geese found sanctuary in Antarctica during a mass extinction event 66 ...

A 183-million-year-old plesiosaur fossil unveils rare skin details, reshaping our understanding of ancient marine life.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

Scientists who just months ago ... past 20 years in the shape of the inner core. Signs of the core’s deformation appeared in waves from earthquakes that were strong enough to reach Earth ...

About 300 to 200 million years ago, the Australian tectonic plate was part of the supercontinent, Pangea, when all of Earth’s landmasses were joined together. As the landmasses began to separate ...

an asteroid initially projected to have a 2.7 percent chance of striking Earth in 2029. Further observations ruled out an impact. The most infamous asteroid impact occurred 66 million years ago ...

Elon Musk's internet satellites have been a game changer for people in rural areas, but scientists are alarmed that plans to ...

Another $200 million ... ago, progress in downtown Albany often seems to inch along at a snail’s pace, if it advances at all. “Let’s go,” he said. “Let’s not spend two years trying ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...

Feb. 10, 2025 — Earth's inner core is undergoing structural transformation. Located 3,000 miles below the Earth's surface, the inner core is anchored by gravity within the molten liquid outer core.

The odds of an asteroid crashing into Earth in 2032 keep changing, and not in a good way. Asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 1-in-45 chance of impacting our planet in seven years. The odds are not a huge ...