"An asteroid this size impacts Earth on average every few thousand years and could cause severe damage to a local region," ...

Understanding Earth’s Core Earth's core is the heart of our planet; it's a fiery furnace where temperatures soar higher than ...

Researchers from the University of Göttingen have uncovered a groundbreaking geological phenomenon—the Neotethys oceanic plate, which once lay beneath the Arabian and Eurasian continents, is ...

For millions of years now, the Arabian and Eurasian plates have been colliding, which has pushed the oceanic plate downward into the Earth’s mantle. As the process continued, the descending ...

The threat from space rock 2024 YR4 has surpassed that of Apophis, an asteroid feared by scientists 20 years ago. The danger ...

A recently-discovered asteroid, which is estimated to be between 130ft and 330ft in diameter, could strike Planet Earth in ...

There is currently a 0.28% chance that 2024 YR4 will strike Earth on December 22, 2032 – a drop from 1.5% yesterday – ...

Researchers studying decades of earthquake data say they have found the first evidence that, in addition to spinning backward ...

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The women had climbed down into open-pit areas left by industrial miners to look for scraps of gold when the earth collapsed ...