Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...

3 min read During the Ordovician period ... For the most part the Earth's climate was warm and wet, with sea levels rising as much as 1,970 feet (600 meters) above those of today.

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

Scientists use the evidence recorded within rocks throughout geologic time to reconstruct a picture of earth's history. Amateurs, too, can look at local rocks to learn about what life was like in the ...

When the air is partly ionized, freely moving electrons slightly slow down the radio signals travelling to Earth from GPS and ...

an era in Earth's history known as the Ordovician during which our planet witnessed dramatically increased asteroid impacts.

The fossils that these layers contain are world-famous for the details that they record about life on Earth during the Late Ordovician Period. Besides preserving pieces of Earth's history, limestone ...

A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

But first there was a period of biological regrouping following the disastrous climax to the Ordovician. The recovery soon got under way in the oceans as climbing temperatures and rising sea ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's ...