The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

Geological evidence of the transition when Earth was plunged into a planetary-wide deep-freeze discovered in ancient Scottish rocks. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...

The discovery could usher in a wave of investigations into the evolution of Earth’s mantle, a layer of material about 1,800 miles deep that extends from just beneath the planet’s thin crust to its ...

A thin slice of the ancient rocks collected from Gakkel Ridge near the North Pole, photographed under a microscope and seen under cross-polarized light. Field width ~ 14mm. Credit: E. Cottrell, ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

America’s geological wonders don’t need erupting volcanoes to create breathtaking spectacles that look straight out of a ...

I had no intention of going into science. In my early teens, I wanted to be a jockey and was firmly convinced I would never weigh more than 100 pounds. I quickly exceeded that weight cap and switched ...