New Delhi: A team of researchers believes they have understood why Earth remained in a state of extreme heat and harsh temperatures for 5 million years following the Great Dying. The catastrophic ...

The catastrophic event, which occurred 252 million years ago, wiped out nearly 90 per cent of all life on Earth, both on land ...

In September 2023, a global seismic mystery began to unfold. Every 90 seconds, the Earth pulsed with a strange, low-frequency ...

A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

A physicist solves an old thermodynamic puzzle and demonstrates directly from the second law that entropy disappears at absolute zero.

A mystery interstellar object discovered by a British astronomer is most likely the oldest comet ever seen. The "water ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Researchers have uncovered that both ocean currents and atmospheric changes contribute equally to a cold patch in the North Atlantic. While global temperatures continue to rise, one area in the ...

Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic mass extinction – or the Great Dying – this was the most catastrophic of the five mass ...

The natural marvels, which do everything from enabling acrobatic flight to insulating against Antarctic cold, continue to ...

AN INTERSTELLAR space rock zooming through our solar system may be the oldest comet ever seen by humans, according to ...

Metamorphosed rock is a kind that has been changed by heat and pressure over time ... analyses of these rocks could provide insight into Earth's conditions during the Hadean, a time shrouded in ...