The ice floe cracks up around the Endurance Royal Geographical Society After the British ship Endurance (pictured above)…
Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of…
Drill cores at the impact site of the Chicxulub asteroid show evidence that, alongside widespread destruction, the collision…
Illustration of the Chicxulub asteroid impact, which took place 66 million years ago MARK GARLICK/Science Photo Library/Getty Images…

Expedition member Chris Blakeley in the entrance to the world’s northernmost known cave, found on the Wulff Land…
The Chicxulub asteroid brought the age of the dinosaurs to an end ROGER HARRIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY The asteroid…