Bake them, freeze them, fire them from a gun or blast them into space: tardigrades can survive almost anything. Some experts ...

Dinosaurs had such an immense impact on Earth that their sudden extinction led to wide-scale changes in landscapes—including ...

It all comes down to this. After six months, 25 home-and-away rounds and three weeks of finals, a season which started with ...

We know the temperature of Earth's inner core is very roughly about 5,000 Kelvin (K) (4,727°C). It was once liquid, but has ...

Potentially the largest known source of niobium discovered in central Australia formed 830 million years ago, and we can ...

Analysis by researchers at the University of Bern suggests that water and other volatile compounds arrived on Earth from ...

A team of scientists has investigated how Earth’s twin became so inhospitable, and whether the same will happen to our planet ...

“The idea that Ryugu-like objects held on to ice for so long is remarkable,” he added. “It suggests that the building blocks ...

The iron-rich core at the center of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth's evolution. The core not only powers the ...

Changes in rock formations from before and after the mass extinction event 66 million years ago may reflect how dinosaurs ...

Researchers in Japan have found that the parent asteroid of Ryugu, a near-Earth asteroid, retained water in ice form for ...

So the bottom line is that the gravity of the closer tidal bulge on the Earth is pulling the Moon forward, which increases ...