Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

Of the heavy metals spewed by dying stars, the astronomers were particularly interested in iron-60. That’s because iron-60 is ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics begin?

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

The discovery of a 480-million-year-old sponge in China has revolutionized scientists’ understanding of early reef ecosystems and biomineralization. As published in the journal PNAS, Chinese ...

Previously, stromatoporoid reefs were thought to have emerged suddenly in the late Darriwilian period (around 460 million years ago), leading ... critical period in Earth's history.

Researchers have helped overturn the popular theory that water on Earth originated from asteroids bombarding its surface; Scientists have analyzed a meteorite analogous to the early Earth to ...

By the late Darriwilian stage of the Middle Ordovician, which is approximately 460 million years ago, these sponges had ... during critical periods of Earth's history and highlights how organisms ...

International scientists have uncovered the oldest known phosphatic stromatoporoid sponge, dating back approximately 480 ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

“Since Jupiter’s orbit takes 12 years ... hazardous asteroids — Near Earth Objects that are larger than 460 feet wide and that could come within 4.65 million miles of Earth — according ...