Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache of lunar soil and rock that China retrieved from ...

According to a new study that was published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Earth may have once had rings ...

For spinning spheres, centrifugal force is maximized at the equator, where the rotational speed is highest. The amount of the ...

Study “presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator” says lead ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

The existence of “Snowball Earth” is now widely accepted, but the idea ice coverage was universal is so extraordinary and ...

Researchers have discovered strong evidence from rocks in Colorado that Earth was covered in ice and snow around 700 million years ago, a period known as 'Snowball Earth'. The study, led by the ...