Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Scientists uncover signs that Earth’s resilience to carbon emissions may be unraveling faster than climate models suggest. A ...

The thick, mineral-rich layers of clay found on Mars suggest that the Red Planet harbored potentially life-hosting ...

That’s Cloudland Canyon State Park in Rising Fawn, Georgia for you – nature’s way of humble-bragging. Located on the western edge of Lookout Mountain, this 3,485-acre slice of paradise might just be ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Two studies fill in gaps about the cosmos’s ordinary matter. One maps it all, even the “missing matter.” The other details one of its hiding spots.

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

The shattered star at the center was once a white dwarf, a stellar ember no larger than Earth, yet almost as heavy as the Sun ...

Northern peatlands could seriously complicate efforts to cool the planet, especially after a temporary overshoot of the 1.5°C ...