A storm as ferocious as the one of 12,350 BC would likely cause complete mayhem if it were to strike Earth and its ...

Today, it’s believed that Jupiter and Saturn, the largest planets, were the first to fully form, both within a few million ...

A solar radiation storm struck Earth 14,300 years ago, showering the planet with high-energy particles and leaving a spike in ...

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

The world's two gigantic ice sheets are in greater peril from global warming than previously thought, a study published May 20 says.

At the end of the last ice age, the Earth was hit by the strongest solar storm ever known. If something similar occurred ...

The latest findings, published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, confirm that the extreme event from 14,300 ...

Some creatures made it from the prehistoric era to today. Discover 5 species that have survived since the age of dinosaurs.

The study concludes that the amber was originally formed as resin in coastal forests. During massive tsunami events, entire ...

It is one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions, getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice ...