Ancient millipedes once reached sizes far beyond anything alive today. Newly analyzed fossils show that some species grew ...

Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways. Rivers cut through ...

Analysis of ancient fossils has shown that giant anacondas became extremely large over 12 million years ago and remain giants ...

Seismic imaging has exposed two massive zones hidden deep in Earth’s mantle. These giant blobs, known as large low-velocity provinces, or LLVPs, stretch beneath Africa and the Pacific. They are so ...

Roughly four and a half billion years ago the planet Theia slammed into Earth, destroying Theia, melting large fractions of ...

The dwarf planet Ceres, tucked away in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, has long been considered a quiet, frozen remnant of the early solar system. With its airless surface, icy shell, and ...

Researchers say the finding may also shed light on how giant planets gradually shifted to their current orbits and what interstellar conditions the solar system faced during its birth.

Ice Age" invites viewers into a dramatic new era of prehistoric life, millions of years after the extinction of the dinosaurs ...

A collision between Earth and a massive Mars-sized protoplanet likely caused the formation of our moon. Now scientists from the Max Planck Institute suggest that doomed planet was likely a rowdy ...