Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two meters in ...
A new study co-led by the University of Arizona and the Smithsonian offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's ...
It's the first time Earth's geologic record — information found inside rocks — has been used to create an animation of this kind.
A new study co-led by the Smithsonian and the University of Arizona offers the most detailed glimpse yet of how Earth's ...
A timeline of 485 million years of Earth’s surface temperatures shows ancient greenhouse conditions were hotter than scientists thought.
High in the Canadian wilderness, Smithsonian scientists search for ancient minerals that could explain the origins of the ...
A new study from Monash University scientists suggests that Earth may have had a ring system that formed around 466 million ...
A new study offers the most detailed glimpse yet into how Earth's surface temperature has changed over the past 485 million years. The data show that Earth has been and can be warmer than today -- but ...
The ring could have cast a shadow on Earth, blocking sunlight and contributing to a significant global cooling event.
"It has the landscape; it looks like the Moon. And it has the scale of features astronauts will both be observing and exploring," NASA's Cindy Evans said.