The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday.

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

New clues from ancient seas are reshaping what we know about mass extinction and the future of our oceans. In a recent ...

Astronomers made a significant discovery. They observed the initial stages of rocky planet formation. This happened around a young star similar to our sun. The star is named HOPS-315. Scientists used ...

In the 1950s, Stanley Miller and Nobel laureate Harold Urey conducted experiments at the University of Chicago in which they ...

More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago—including what is ...

In an incredible twist of fate, a retired chicken farmer unearthed a 240-million-year-old amphibian fossil in a pile of rocks ...

Over the past two billion years, this supercontinent cycle has produced at least three major supercontinents: Columbia, Rodinia, and Pangea. Each one formed as landmasses gradually collided, only to ...