Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk ...

Largest ever chunk of Mars which fell to Earth in meteor strike goes up for auction - The sale of the meteorite in New York ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Science has been through a lot since the long history of the planet Earth. And people have philosophized and thought about it ...

A scientist has warned that Earth's rotation is unexpectedly accelerating, leading to the shortest day in history in just a ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Most foraminiferan species reside on the seafloor, but paleontologists are particularly interested in planktonic species, ...

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq ...

Did you know that some of the oldest human-made structures on Earth align precisely with the rising sun on the summer ...

Summer began 84 million years ago, when the earth’s axis tilted twelve degrees. Before that, there were no seasons. We don’t ...

How the biggest flood in the history of the Earth created the Mediterranean. Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical ...