"As scientists, we recognize the special nature of the impact crater, but it was also recognized by ancient inhabitants of ...

A meteorite that struck northwestern Scotland about a billion years ago may have collided 200 million years later than ...

While much remains unknown, it is intriguing that two ancient meteorite impacts, the 3.5-billion-year-old North Pole impact ...

Apr. 18, 2025 — Scientists report adaptive divergence in cryptic color pattern is underlain by two distinct, complex chromosomal rearrangements, where millions of ... Environmental Variability ...

Alternatively, ‘Skull Hill’ could be an igneous rock eroded from a nearby outcrop or ejected from an impact crater. On Earth and Mars, iron and magnesium are some of the main contributors to igneous ...

What can carbon deposits on Mars tell scientists about whether life could have once existed on the Red Planet? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international ...

Louise Shackleton has spoken publicly for the first time since her husband's death in December, as parliament prepares to vote again on legislation to introduce assisted dying in England and Wales.

Drawn to the Pole will explore the magnetic and metaphorical pull of Antarctica, shedding light on the motivations of early explorers like Scott and Shackleton. It will house exclusive archive ...

and through revitalising Discovery Point it will allow the knowledge collected on RRS Discovery to continue to inform public understanding of the importance of the polar regions and the impact of ...

In the case of Yarrabubba, they found that the crater had formed on Earth roughly 2.2 billion years ago. At the time of the meteor’s impact, the Earth was in a deep-freeze period known as “Snowball ...