Christmas is the time for families to come together, and in the midst of the festive season, University of Leicester paleontologists have announced that they have reunited a family that has been separated for 150 million...
Academics from Northumbria University are part of an international research team which has used data from satellites to track changes in the thickness of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Global warming is causing the Ice Sheet to melt...
Iceland declared a state of emergency on Friday after a series of powerful earthquakes rocked the country's southwestern Reykjanes peninsula, in what could be...
What did the Earth look like about 2 billion years ago, when the planet's atmosphere was being oxygenated?
By analyzing ancient dolomite (carbonate) deposits found...
Scientists have discovered a new layer of partly molten rock under the Earth's crust that might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic...
When a small asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere from space, its surface is brutally heated, causing melting and fragmenting. Therefore, why the rocks near the...
New insights gleaned from volcanic rock are helping scientists better understand how our planet evolved billions of years ago.
Studies of basalt, the material that...
Scientists have been studying the sediments within Mars' Gale crater for many years using orbital data sets, but thanks to the Curiosity rover driving...
