Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the ...

Chinese scientists have discovered a remarkable material in lunar samples brought back by the Chang'e 5 mission. This finding ...

It is called paleo-detection. The idea here is that there are rocks existing from the time when Earth formed. Dark matter may ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

Oregon’s state geologist is pitching a novel idea of using the region’s rocky basalt layer – born of lava that flowed ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.