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

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Our solar system’s path through the Milky Way may have stirred Earth’s ancient climate ... James Webb spots a dead galaxy just 700 million years post Big Bang 'Jupiter’s defence fails ...

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa ... the collision of India with Asia we must first look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ... around two billion years ago. About 800 million years ago, oxygen ...

Around 250 million years ago, all of the continents ... also discovered that the Earth is continuing to bulge due to the melting ice caps caused by climate change. 5. Climate change is causing ...