A researcher has figured out that the Earth’s first continent was formed 3bn years ago, in a new paper that sheds fresh light on ... Meanwhile, in Greaves' sample, the first continents appeared ...
“Over millions of years, material from this ring gradually fell to Earth, creating the spike in meteorite impacts observed in ...
Some of the most dramatic climate events in history are the Snowball Earth episodes, which occurred hundreds of millions of ...
This new floating rock is only expected to orbit the Earth once, beginning its trip Sept. 29 before breaking off from its ...
Any night now, the astrophysicists tell us, a new star will appear in the night sky—about as bright as the North Star—the ...
Scientists detected Earth's ambipolar electric field, confirming that it shapes the atmosphere. This key discovery impacts ...
A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.
A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...
The new study asserts that Earth's ring formed around 466 million years ago, and stuck around for around 40 million years ...