Kazakh geologists have discovered a rare earth metal deposit with estimated resources of more than 20 million metric tons at ...

The Earth’s crust is divided into large ... The most recent evidence suggests that it persisted in some form until about 20 ...

A team of researchers proposes that 10 million years ago two giant neutron stars crashed into each other and debris from that intense explosion (called kilonova) fell on Earth and the Moon.

Ancient Earth movements, probably connected with the initial unzipping of the Atlantic Ocean over 200 million years ago, caused long fault zones to form and mud with fossils was sucked into the ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 million to 230 million years ago in the Triassic Period, and went ...

Shatter cones and rock deformations reveal the force of the impact, but its full consequences remain uncertain. Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but ...

New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about 150 million years ago when a ... rock on April 20, 2025, the data ...

Isolated for millions of years, the islands have given rise to species found nowhere else on Earth, from vibrant ... diverged between 31 and 34 million years ago—long after the breakup of ...

But life on Earth is never quite so straightforward, especially not when it comes to the most socially complex species we know: humans. University of Cambridge researchers have now uncovered an ...

was the most devastating event in Earth’s history. 96% of marine life and 70% of terrestrial vertebrates vanished around 252 million years ago. The planet was consumed by extreme environmental ...