Geologists in Australia have uncovered a chilling discovery about Earth's ancient past, shedding light on a mystery that ...

The video model was released alongside a research paper in the November 2024 edition of Geoscience Frontiers. The work, led ...

Rodinia, in turn, is formed by the break-up of an even older supercontinent called Nuna about 1.35 billion years ago. Among the planets in the Solar System, Earth is unique for having plate tectonics.

Earth has gone through many geologic phases ... were probably deposited by a moving glacier as the supercontinent Rodinia (which preceded the more famous Pangaea) was breaking apart.

Earth is not a static ... For instance, there’s the supercontinent Rodinia, which was created by the split of an older supercontinent called Nuna about 1.35 billion years ago.

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new "mini-moon" called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.

Earth will get a second moon for about two months this year when a small asteroid begins to orbit our planet. The asteroid was discovered in August and is set to become a mini-moon, revolving ...

Rockström is a research professor in earth system science at University Potsdam, the director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, and co-founder of the Planetary Guardians.

Sep. 24, 2024 — A mysterious type of iron-rich magma entombed within extinct volcanoes is likely abundant with rare earth elements and could offer a new way to source these in-demand metals ...

The asteroid will orbit the Earth for about two months starting from Sept. 29. The Earth is getting a second moon for a limited time beginning the end of September. An asteroid will come close ...

A pair of asteroid dynamics researchers from Universidad Complutense de Madrid Ciudad Universitaria have found that a small asteroid will make one orbit around the Earth starting this month before ...