For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

The Marathon Uplift in southwest Texas is a striking window into Earth's deep past, exposing deformed Paleozoic rocks shaped by the Ouachita orogeny. Spanning from the Late Cambrian to the Late ...

A newly discovered fossil site in southwest China, the Jiangchuan Biota, contains about 700 exceptionally preserved specimens dating back 539–554 million years. The find includes early bilaterians and ...

Dr Peter Verheyen, Sola Society and Academy at Vienna University, discusses intriguing research and discoveries related to ...

Learn how ancient plants survived extreme heat after the Permian–Triassic mass extinction and what their strategy could mean ...

A new study published in Biology Letters provides the most definitive evidence yet of trilobite respiration, confirming that ...

Oxford scientists’ fossil discovery in China shows complex animals, including early human relatives, evolved at least four ...

The crew's homecoming cleared a critical final hurdle for the Lockheed Martin-built LMT.N Orion spacecraft, proving it would withstand the extreme forces of re-entry from a lunar-return trajectory.

Cambrian Park Plaza, the low‑slung strip mall at Union and Camden crowned by that familiar 1950s carousel‑style sign, is still quietly doing business while its future hangs in the balance. The San ...

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SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The astronauts aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft on the Artemis II mission captured breathtaking photos of Earth during their 10-day journey to and from the moon. Three NASA ...