The Geological Society of London says of Africa’s severing: ‘Today the EAR remains above sea level however in the future, as ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

The Silurian Hypothesis contemplates how long the ruins of a civilization would be detectable, on Earth or even other worlds, ...

YR4 has a 2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Astronomers are tracking it to refine estimates of its size and orbit to see how much of a risk the space rock poses.

“To understand the origin of life, it becomes important to understand when and how Earth began hosting an ocean with a more neutral pH,” said Meng Guo, a former Yale graduate student in Korenaga’s lab ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa, which will be very close to America predict scientists (around five to ten million years from now). This rare ...

Now, researchers have found the first evidence of changes taking place over the past 20 years in the shape ... more than 3 million times greater than Earth’s average atmospheric pressure on ...

Aside from Earth, astronomers have ... that permeate the Milky Way. Until now, scientists assumed that all this water gradually built up over billions of years as hydrogen, the most abundant ...

Research indicates that the plates in the area are being pushed apart in part by magma rising up from deep in the Earth ... between 1 to 20 million years from now. That's quite fast on a ...

1-in-100, for example, sounds like a long shot—until you find out it’s the chance that an asteroid will impact Earth ... slammed into the planet 66 million years ago, ending the reign of ...

The asteroid, called 2024 YR4 and measuring 100m by 40m, is currently at a distance of around 27 million miles ... of its orbit" so that four years later it misses Earth. Just over two years ...

"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," the ESA has said. NASA says that the impact could kill up to a million people ...