A supernova close enough to Earth could strip the ozone layer and cause mass extinction, but no immediate threat exists.

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

This week on Break It Down: turns out the one time we saw Uranus it was having an uncharacteristically windy moment, new ...

The discovery of fossilised plant 'blood' - once prized as a gemstone - shows what lived on the continent before it was all ...

Modern Antarctica is a frozen desert, largely devoid of life. But this wasn't always the case. Ninety million years ago, it ...

The discovery of amber in Antarctica has been reported for the first time, as detailed in a recent study published in ...

Turkish gravediggers made an extraordinary discovery during their work when they unearthed a warehouse containing over a ...

Along with fossils of roots, pollen, and spores, the amber provides some of the best evidence yet that a mid-Cretaceous, ...

Today, Antarctica is a huge frozen continent, though it was once temperate enough to be covered in swampy forests. Now, a team of scientists has discovered fossilized tree resin—amber—on the continent ...

Scientists have made a historic discovery, finding amber fragments for the first time in one of Earth’s coldest places, Antarctica. This discovery, led by Dr. Johann P. Klages from the Alfred Wegener ...

Scientists in Germany have discovered amber in Antarctica for the first time, revealing that around 90 million years ago, the ...

For the first time, amber fragments have been recovered from Antarctica, or, to be more specific, from an offshore ...