Around 467 million years ago, something strange happened to our planet. The trilobites, brachiopods, and conodonts that thrived in Earth’s...
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A ruby that formed in Earth’s crust 2.5 billion years ago encases evidence for early life, wriggling around in the...
For a period of Earth’s history, between roughly 2.5 to 4 billion years ago, our planet was a punching bag...
The formation of a planetary system is a somewhat messy affair. After a star has finished forming, the swirling, roiling...
Back when the Universe was young – around 13.7 billion years ago – the first stars formed in the soupy...
If Earth’s temperature rises by a significant enough margin, we could see a major restructuring of the plankton species living...
In a galaxy 31 million light-years away, astronomers believe they have just found evidence of a planet. After a painstaking...
For the first time, physicists have been able to directly measure one of the ways exploding stars forge the heaviest...
New archaeological evidence has allowed scientists to refine the timeline for the Viking presence in North America. Pieces of wood...
We design cities. We live in them. We work in them, and we have fun in them. But boy howdy...
The Milky Way galaxy has a history of violence. Over the Universe’s 13.8-billion-year lifespan, it has repeatedly collided with and...
A high-energy neutrino traced back to a violent encounter between a black hole and a star needs a different origin...
