As Neotethys closed up, the oceanic crust went under the Eurasian continent. The continental portion of the Arabian plate, ...

The whole world used to be joined in one supercontinent called Pangaea. The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called the crust. It is made up of large slabs called tectonic plates.

Two Grand Canyon-size features on the far side of the moon were likely formed in about 10 minutes after an unknown object ...

New research shows that when an asteroid slammed into the moon billions of years ago, it carved out a pair of grand canyons ...

Kimberly Vrieze, of Racine, is a new member of the American Angus Association, reports Mark McCully, CEO of the national breed organization headquartered in Saint Joseph, Missouri. The American Angus ...

Painted lady butterflies are world travelers. The ones we encounter in Europe fly from Africa to Sweden, ultimately returning ...

Scientists proposed an explanation for the formation of Vallis Schrödinger and Vallis Planck near the lunar south pole, which ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes.

A new map of climate conditions during the Pliocene epoch—the last time Earth’s carbon dioxide concentrations hit 400 parts ...

One of the greatest mysteries in American history is the Lost Colony of Roanoke, a small settlement of more than […] ...

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