It is difficult to imagine the difference in size between the Sun and Earth, or the distance between them. This activity will help you to visualise it. If you create this model, the Earth and Sun ...

Why do people believe the flat Earth theory and is it even worth debating? Paul M. Sutter is an astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook and the Flatiron Institute, host of Ask a Spaceman and Space ...

About 252 million years ago, upward of 80% of all marine species vanished during the end-Permian mass extinction—the most extreme event of its kind in ... the globe in the millions of years that ...

Current estimates for the age of the Earth owe much to Lord Kelvin, the same natural philosopher after whom scientists named the Kelvin temperature scale. En homage to his work, scientists often ...

Hartmann and colleague Donald Davis proposed the giant impact model by combining the idea of accretion with the dynamics of the Earth-moon system and early analyses of the Apollo lunar samples ...

"For us in the paleobiology field, this model is the equivalent ... homogenization on a planetary scale, lead study author Jood Al Aswad, a Ph.D. candidate in Earth and planetary sciences, offered ...