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From Live Science: While most scientists agree that a large object from space likely crashed into Earth and led to the eventual demise of th...

From The Danger Room: Tracks in ice could have served as a safe environment — much like a cell — for the first life on Earth to replicate an...

Scientists contend that recent human activity, including stunning population growth, sprawling megacities and increased use of fossil fuels,...

From Popular Mechanics: In the last million years, the North American ice sheet has formed and completely melted about 10 times. Ice is melt...

Two ideas exist on the progression of glaciation on Earth from 716.5 to 630 million years ago. Current evidence suggests the top version: a ...

Data researchers collected on speleothem encrustations, a type of mineral deposit, in coastal caves on the Mediterranean island of Mallorca ...

New simulations show that variations in temperature can lead to regions of outward and inward migration that safely trap planets on orbits a...

The deluge that formed the Mediterranean. Photograph: Roger Pibernat From The Guardian: Catastrophic flooding caused sea levels to rise by 1...

The Sequoia tree, the largest living thing on Earth, dwarfs humans and our ancient one-celled ancestors. Jane Wooldridge/Miami Herald/MCT Fr...

Also known as the "eye of Quebec", Manicougan Crater in Canada is one the Earth's oldest known impact craters, and is about 20...

Ancient basalt vein, Greenland Credit: Michael A. Hamilton From Live Science: Imagine flipping a Frisbee in Quebec, Canada, and seeing it la...

The Aorounga crater is spproximately 345–370 million years old based on the age of the sedimentary rocks deformed by the impact. From Live S...

From Science Daily: ScienceDaily (June 17, 2009) — Geologists at the University of Leicester have shown that an ancient Ice Age, once regard...

From The BBC: Formic acid, a molecule implicated in the origins of life, has been found at record levels on a meteorite that fell into a Can...

Asteroids bombarded Earth 3.9billion years ago but may not have wiped out all life. In fact some bacteria may have thrived From The Daily Ma...

Photo: Early in our planet's history, volcanoes stopped spewing out lava for around 250 million years (Image: Denis Hallinan / Alamy) Fr...

This natural "desert pavement" in Israel's Negev Desert has been dated to about 1.8 million years old, the olest known vast ex...

From The BBC: A huge wave crashed into the New York City region 2,300 years ago, dumping sediment and shells across Long Island and New Jers...

Photo: The same ratio of two varieties of titanium has been found in a range of meteorites, hinting that the cloud of gas and dust that for...

From The Independent: The mystery of how our planet's atmosphere became rich in oxygen has finally been solved. It was one of the most i...