A new study reveals surprising clues about the beginnings of subduction on Earth. The Hadean Eon, which lasted from 4.6 to ...

It offers a rare glimpse into this ancient ritual, which is a process of prayer, discussion, spiritual reflection and divine ...

The documentary examines scientific research on meteorites, cosmic dust, and ancient planetary impacts that could have ...

Theia' is a long-vanished world, a planet-sized body thought to have smashed into the early Earth and that helped to form the ...

Temperature records from measurements of oxygen isotopes in the ice reveal that this area experienced a gradual, long-term ...

After months of debunking Scantarctica, a Flat Earth documentary series, Simon Dan says it’s reached “its worst theory yet.” The filmmakers insist that the 24-hour Antarctic sun is a man-made illusion ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites. One hypothesis has been that our proto-Earth (what the earliest stages of ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb is no stranger to furthering eyebrow-raising ideas. Lately, for instance, he’s been hypothesizing that the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS — broadly believed by his peers to ...

A team of researchers at The University of New Mexico has uncovered how a peculiar, prehistoric plant might unlock new ways to reconstruct Earth's ancient climate. Led by UNM Earth and Planetary ...

For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring Billion.” They assumed not much occurred during the time: mountain building ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along with collaborators, has found that long-term orbital variations occurring over ...

Before Earth, there was “proto Earth,” a primitive hunk of rock that formed four and a half billion years ago. It was drastically different to the Earth we know today, heaving with lava and rock all ...