The conclusions come from patterns tracked by scientists that point to several meteorite impacts through geological records.

A new study suggests that Earth might have had a ring system around 466 million years ago, potentially formed during a period of unusually intense meteorite impacts known as the Ordovician impact spik ...

A shimmering ancient fossil unearthed in New York state looks like a piece of finely crafted jewelry, but it’s also a portal ...

Uncover the golden fossil of Lomankus edgecombei, a 450-million-year-old arthropod, offering rare insights into ancient ...

The study claims that Earth's continents are drifting and will one day form a single supercontinent. This will be accompanied ...

A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

The Earth’s geological and climatic history is punctuated by several mass extinction events, moments in time when the planet experienced abrupt shifts, leading to the substantial loss of its ...

"This is why it is crucial to reach net-zero emissions as soon as possible.” Earth has witnessed at least five mass extinction events to date. The Ordovician-Silurian Extinction happened around 443 ...

A "bus-sized" asteroid being tracked by NASA will zoom safely past the Earth on Wednesday as both celestial objects make a close approach while orbiting around the sun. The space rock, known as ...

Biomolecular condensates are also changing how scientists think about the origins of life on Earth. There is ample evidence that nucleotides, the building blocks of RNA and DNA, can very plausibly ...

How Life Began on Earth: Modeling Earth's Ancient Atmosphere Oct. 31, 2024 — This model reveals how vastly different the atmosphere was on ancient Earth, and how life may have first ...

Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu parachuted back to Earth after their six-month stay in the country’s Tiangong space station. The Shenzhou-18 crew conducted some 90 experiments and tests in ...