After more than a century of speculation scientists have finally solved the mystery of Antarctica’s Blood Falls discovering that iron-rich brine water trapped beneath Taylor Glacier oxidizes when it ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...

The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

By collecting samples after climbing a high peak and firing rockets with special traps into the upper atmosphere, scientists ...

For that purpose, a dome was built with an automation system handled from the Unahur. The facility is to be laid on a galvanized iron base, which is already installed on the Antarctic soil.

But where to start? Our first target was an unusual layer of rocks known as the Antarctic Creek Member, which crops out on the flanks of a dome some 20 kilometres in diameter. The Antarctic Creek ...

Yet Antarctica is classified as a desert ... where they would ascend the ten-thousand-foot-high Titan Dome to reach Shackleton’s farthest point: 88° 23' S, 162° E. Finally, Worsley ...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s call to crash the ISS into the seas in 2027 is a bombshell proposal that, if echoed by NASA, will ...