But while lifeless during that time, the planet was already covered by vast oceans dotted with hydrothermal vent systems that ...

Most of Grindavík’s residents had already been evacuated weeks ago, as scientists had ... volcanic event in under three years on the Reykjanes Peninsula, a region that had been silent for centuries.

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

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

The Radcliffe Wave is a massive, undulating structure filled with dense clouds of gas and dust, stretching across several ...

All life on Earth can ... some 4 billion years, which is only 600 million years after the planet’s formation. But a new study ...

Newly analyzed fossil skeleton of Mixodectes pungens reveals its tree-dwelling lifestyle, dietary habits, and ties to ...

A new study suggests this cosmic journey may have influenced Earth's climate millions of ... found that around 14 million years ago, the solar system passed through a dense, star-forming region ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a ... regions of near-Earth asteroids ...

Beginning around 2.5 million years ago, Earth entered an era marked by successive ice ages and interglacial periods, emerging from the last glaciation around 11,700 years ago. A new analysis suggests ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas ... In a split second she’s flying, wings humming at 800 beats a minute to carry the precious fluid inside of her.

making it especially challenging to detect a signal from an event that occurred 14 million years ago. "The challenges in peering far back into the history of the Earth's climate clearly limit our ...