Giant meteorite impacts created Earth’s continents, shows study
New Curtin study has provided the strongest evidence yet that Earth’s continents were formed by giant meteorite impacts that were particularly prevalent during the...
How dinosaurs carried their enormous weight
Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurs – like Brontosaurus and Diplodocus – supported their gigantic bodies on land.
A University of...
What part of a space rock survives to the ground?
When a small asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere from space, its surface is brutally heated, causing melting and fragmenting.
Therefore, it was somewhat of a mystery...
Scientists discover ancient source of oxygen deep in the Earth’s crust
Scientists at Newcastle University have uncovered a source of oxygen that may have influenced the evolution of life before the advent of photosynthesis.
The pioneering...
An interstellar meteor struck the earth in 2014, and now scientists want to search...
Back in 2014, an object crashed into the ocean just off the coast of Papua New Guinea.
Data collected at the time indicated that the...
Volcanic super-eruptions were formed over millions of years, followed by swift surge
Researchers at the University of Bristol and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre have discovered that super-eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in...
Scientists discover a super-earth near the habitable zone of a red dwarf
A super-Earth planet has been found near the habitable zone of a red dwarf star only 37 light-years from the Earth.
This is the first...
Scientists discover places on the moon where it’s always ‘sweater weather’
People could potentially live and work in lunar pits and caves with steady temperatures in the 60s.
Future human explorers on the moon might have...
Every bird has some dinosaur form, shows study
All baby birds have a moment prior to hatching when their hip bone is a tiny replica of a dinosaur’s pelvis.
That’s one of the...
Plesiosaurs weren’t just marine animals, show fossils in Sahara Desert
Fossils of small plesiosaurs, long-necked marine reptiles from the age of dinosaurs, have been found in a 100-million year old river system that is...