Earth’s deep past leaves plenty of unanswered questions. None currently proves an alien visit, but scientists know the ...

Ancient Chinese solar eclipse records reveal something extraordinary about Earth’s rotation - Sun may have been near the peak ...

A solar eclipse recorded more than 2,700 years ago is revealing surprising secrets about Earth's rotation and the Sun's ancient behavior. By correcting an eight-kilometer error in the location of an ...

The location of Earth's geographic poles has changed several times over the past 320 million years in a process known as true polar wander.

A team of astrophysicists, geoscientists, chemists and life scientists affiliated with a host of institutions in Japan has found evidence that billions of years ago, the Earth's oceans were green. In ...

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major role in shaping Earth's interior and driving volcanic activity more than 3 ...

An ancient Chinese record of a solar eclipse from 709BC has revealed new insights into how Earth's rotation has changed over ...

Ancient bricks inscribed with the names of Mesopotamian kings have yielded important insights into a mysterious anomaly in Earth's magnetic field 3,000 years ago, according to a new study. Ancient ...

Plate tectonics has shaped the Earth’s surface for billions of years: Continents and oceanic crust have pushed and pulled on each other, continually rearranging the planet’s façade. As two massive ...

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