A tiny asteroid will orbit around our planet for 53 days from the end of September. When you purchase through links on our ...

Around 252 million years ago, the world suddenly heated up. Over a geologically brief period of tens of thousands of years, ...

How did life on Earth begin? and Is there life elsewhere in the universe? Given the enormous interest in these questions, you ...

Mega El Niños could have intensified the world’s most devastating mass extinction, which ended the Permian Period 252 million ...

Using information from inside the rocks on Earth's surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the ...

The Gondwana supercontinent broke up millions of years ago. Now, researchers are piecing it back together again.

In a new study, geologists from Australia and China have pieced together Earth's tectonic evolution over the past 1.8 billion ...

A GROUNDBREAKING new model shows how present-day countries formed as land rearranged itself nearly 2 billion years ago. The scientific theory of plate tectonics strives to explain how mountains, ...

Earth is not a static ... Around 200 million years ago, we see the emergence of Pangaea, the supercontinent associated with the age of dinosaurs that was created approximately 335 million years ...

Earth’s evolution has been shaped by a series of severe environmental crises that occurred millions of years ago, profoundly ...

By Stephen Beech via SWNS Ocean life was devastated by a deadly land-sea “tag team” 100 million years ago, reveals new ...

Known as the Great Dying, the mass extinction that ended the Permian geological period was the worst of the five global catastrophic events in Earth’s history, more devastating, than the one ...