Scientists believe a crater found in the Australian outback may be the oldest-known meteor crash site in the world. As AFP reported, scientists have determined that the Yarrabubba crater in western ...

Between 640 and 720 million years ago, the Earth was covered in ice, snagging it the modern nickname “Snowball Earth.” ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...

No, the whole earth — including the oceans — froze over. We were a blinding white Christmas tree ornament in the blackness of space: "snowball earth." The latest intimation that there might ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Researchers at Harvard University are changing the way we think about Earth's largest glaciation event, "Snowball Earth." Find out how Earth's most chilling event ...

Scientists use martite crystals to date Earth's missing rock record, revealing parts of the Great Unconformity formed 1.4 ...

Evidence from hafnium and oxygen isotopes hidden in crystals shows the deep scars of pre-Phanerozoic rock torn up and scattered long before life exploded on Earth. More than an icy age, "Snowball ...

With a mass about 29 times that of Earth, LTT 9779 b lies within the ... of this size so close to its host star is like finding a snowball that hasn't melted in a fire," said graduate student ...