A new climate modeling study presents a new scenario of how climate and life on our planet would change in response to a potential future strike of a medium-sized (~500 m) asteroid.

For two centuries, archaeologists, historians, and social scientists studied human societies in search of the origins of hierarchy—a layered structure where power and privilege are concentrated in the ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

Earth systems models are an important tool for studying complex processes occurring around the planet, such as those in and ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

It’s been trained on 771 billion unique tokens – the AI term for a unit of data – taken from databases of natural protein ...

Earth’s magnetic field, generated by movements within its molten iron core, serves as a protective shield against solar winds ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

In mid-December of 2024, scientists officially updated the World Magnetic Model (WMM), which helps keep track of our planet’s ...

For years, scientists have pondered the mysterious structures deep within the Earth. Research indicates that they are ...

One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a bygone sun-like star about 2,000 light-years from Earth ... ellipsoidal structure, the 3D model also ...

The team believes that the structure was in use until the 8th century BCE, the middle of the period when the Kings of Judah ruled. A scarab seal from the 8th century BCE uncovered during the ...