Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These ...

Strange glass strewn across southern Australia appears to be from a mystery asteroid impact 11 million years ago.

Natural glass fragments scattered across South Australia are now pointing out a giant asteroid impact that took place around ...

Earth’s crust, which is composed of several tectonic plates, like puzzle pieces, began to jiggle. Provoked and stimulated by the torrent of elemental forces churning within the mantle, some larger ...

A new international study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters reveals that the boundaries between geological epochs and periods, even though randomly distributed, follow a hidden, ...

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How can timing influence planetary formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in The Astrophysical ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — New results from OSIRIS-REx, NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly ...

When you look at the solar system, you might notice that the planets' orbits are tilted, and oddities in the protoplanetary ...

In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and collapse under its own gravity, becoming a white ...