Scientists have deciphered the world’s oldest map — and they believe it may lead them to the location of Noah’s Ark.

In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side. But how did they arrive at that number? Philosophers have debated the ...

Except in the crust, the interior of the Earth cannot be studied by drilling holes to take samples. Instead, scientists map the interior by watching how seismic waves from earthquakes are bent ...

Some 41,000 years ago, the Earth’s magnetic field underwent a short-lived reversal. During the Laschamp event, the protective shield that surrounds our planet weakened to a mere 5% of its ...

Pangea essentially turned inside out, the edges of the old continent becoming the collision ... Click here for a present-day map of the Indian subcontinent. India charged across the equator ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

including firing up old thrusters to keep Voyager 1’s antenna pointed at Earth and coming up with a solution for a computer glitch that silenced the probe’s stream of science data to Earth for ...

On October 16th, Voyager 1's fault protection system kicked in, a safety measure designed to preserve the spacecraft's limited power.

Google on Thursday announced updates for some of its most popular apps, including Waze, Google Maps, and Google Earth. Needless to say, the updates include plenty of new Gemini AI integrations.

How old is Earth? Our planet's age is known from a variety of sources, from rocks on our own planet to ones from the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...