Plutonium discovered at the bottom of the ocean was found to be refuse from a kilonova that exploded close to Earth 10 ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a larger parent asteroid broke apart; its orbit ...

The Permian-Triassic extinction, also known as the Great Dying, was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of ...

It may have penetrated the Earth's atmosphere ... the Orion region occurred between approximately 18.2 and 11.5 million years ago, with the most likely time between 14.8 and 12.4 million years ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

Scientists propose Earth may have been bombarded with interstellar dust during a million-year stay near dense star nurseries, possibly cooling the planet as Antarctica’s ice grew. Gaia data ...

the team was able to determine with precision that the Solar System’s passage through the Orion region occurred approximately 14 million years ago. This discovery expands our knowledge of the ...