THE odds of a “city killer” asteroid that once threatened Earth instead smashing into the moon have just doubled. YR4 was ...

Alex Jones, a PhD student from Imperial College London's department of earth science, described the rock as 'strange' and 'shocking'. 'The Perseverance Science Team were astonished by a strange ...

Science works on the principle of reproducibility ... and meteorites that never encountered Earth's rock cycle have confirmed the dates from zircon crystals, informing our ideas on how the ...

Unusual structures of unknown origin discovered in desert rocks have been documented in a new study. In the desert regions of ...

However, some of Earth’s oldest fish called coelacanths make it out unscathed. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter ... As a result of these deeper roots, rock weathering may have increased.

Two large rock formations located beneath the Pacific Ocean and Africa may have the potential to disturb Earth’s magnetic ...

The Archean Eon (4–2.5 million years ago) is the second of Earth’s four major geologic ... Researchers believe the space rock struck the planet around 3.5 billion years ago while travelling ...

Scientists at the University of Tsukuba in Japan have identified a link between sunspot cycles and earthquake occurrences, offering fresh insights into how fluctuations in the sun’s energy impact the ...

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s easy to imagine such a collision as purely destructive, new research ...