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

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

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 ...

A mystery interstellar object spotted last week by astronomers could be the oldest comet ever seen, according to scientists.

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 ...

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

Understanding how wildfires influence our planet's climate is a daunting challenge. Although fire occurs nearly everywhere on ...

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 ...

Two different testing methods found that rocks from an area called the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northern Quebec date to 4.16 billion years ago, a time known as the Hadean eon. The eon is named ...