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

Now, new geological data show that sea levels rose about 125 feet (38 meters) between 11,000 and 3,000 years ago, according ...

Scientists have long sought to determine the age of the moon's South Pole–Aitken (SPA) basin, the largest and oldest known ...

Our planet’s last glacial period (colloquially known as the Ice Age) began around 115,000 years ago and lasted for over 103,000 years of the Pleistocene Epoch. During this time, ...

March's full moon, known as the Worm Moon, will bring a stunning total lunar eclipse, turning the Moon a deep reddish hue in ...

About 252 million years ago, 80 to 90 percent of life on Earth was wiped out. In the Turpan-Hami Basin, life persisted and ...

This week's full worm moon will come with a special treat – a total lunar eclipse, which will turn the moon a blood red color ...

His work showed that the archaeological site extended back from 12,000 years ago right through to around 150,000 years ago. These results were then corroborated by Electron Spin Resonance dating.

The Earth formed an estimated 4.5 billion years ago but there has been little evidence of meteorite strikes in the first half of its existence. Our planet was mostly a water world during the Archaean ...

Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished together by gravity. That same cloud gave rise to our entire solar system, including our star, the sun.

One hundred years ago, Alabama was a bustling state. Its economy was largely based on agriculture but the steel industry was booming and coal mines and textile mills were plentiful. Alabama was in ...

It seems unthinkable that anything could live after tens of thousands of years in hibernation ... survival or more efficient preservation methods for samples on Earth. Cryptobiosis involves shutting ...