Scientists puzzled by asteroids that hit Earth 35 million years ago and seemingly left no climate impacts - UK scientists used hundreds of tiny fossils that lived in the sea at the time to understand ...

Our solar system's journey around the center of the Milky Way takes it through varying galactic environments, and one may have had a lasting impact on Earth's climate, according to a new study.

How about having 30 minutes less each ... “We can basically look at a day 70 million years ago. It’s pretty amazing.” It’s an interesting window into Earth’s past, and it could offer ...

Researchers have proposed that Earth may have had a ring system 466 million years ago, during a period of intense meteorite bombardment known as the Ordovician impact spike. This finding ...

A crater at the edge of the Yucatán peninsula in Mexico was created by a massive asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago At the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago, an ...