Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are brief, intense pulses of radio waves that last only milliseconds. Discovered in 2007, the ...

Over time, Earth's surface renews itself in a process known as the rock cycle. Old or new, sedimentary or igneous, some of ...

A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...

The stellar burst, called a nova, will make it seem as if a new star is shining down on Earth. It won't stick around ... though that star might be very old and at the end stages of its life.

Our Earth is about 4.5 billion years old and, through careful work ... a professor of Earth and environmental sciences at the ...

Snooping in on satellites is getting to be quite popular, enough so that the number of people advancing the state of the art — not to mention the wealth of satellites transmitting signals in the ...

Harvard scientists have discovered a new tardigrade species in amber, offering insights into their evolutionary history and ...

This ancient ring system is thought to have formed about 466 million years ago, at the beginning of a period when Earth was regularly hit by meteorites, according to a new paper in the journal ... are ...

New research gives insight into when ... "We did not expect LUCA to be so old, within just hundreds of millions of years of Earth formation," said co-author Sandra Álvarez-Carretero, a research ...

A weird number of craters are located close to the equator, and the odds that this is random are incredibly low, researchers ...

After this mixing, the Earth was still hot enough for separation to occur again and form new rock and metal layers - this is the ... The youngest mare are thought to be only 1.1 billion years old, ...