A new study finds that ocean acidity may have prevented life on Earth from developing for the planet’s first 500 million ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see ...

The continent drifts northeast at about 2.7 inches (7cm) per year - a rate so significant that GPS coordinates must be ...

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

Scientists have been left baffled after discovering something vast and radioactive lurking in the depths of the Pacific Ocean ...

Beryllium-10 is a radioactive isotope that is continuously produced by cosmic rays interacting with Earth's atmosphere. When ...

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

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...

Paleontological discoveries are becoming more and more surprising, especially considering the latest find by a group of experts who have discovered what is known as a new type of d ...

An unexpected radioactive discovery beneath the Pacific Ocean seabed may provide researchers with a new global geologic time ...

Rossendorf (HZDR), in collaboration with the Dresden University of Technology (TUD Dresden) and the Australian National ...