About 700 million years ago, Earth was entombed in a veneer of ice hundreds of feet thick—a frozen state scientists refer to ...

This illustrated geologic timescale of Earth focuses on the landscapes, flora and fauna of the West, drilling into the region’s deep history.

Most major geological events in Earth's recent history have clustered in 27.5-million-year intervals — a pattern that scientists call the "pulse of the Earth." ...

Spanning billions of years, lunar soil could store a chemical record of ancient gases—materials that may one day support ...

Learn how geological clues preserved in ancient oceans link repeated volcanic eruptions to Triassic marine extinctions.

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where ...

A treasure trove of Cambrian fossils has been discovered in southern China, providing a window on marine life shortly after ...

Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.

Let’s put ICE and, indeed, war itself –the smugly violent certainty of militarism – into the largest perspective possible. I ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

Here's why the astronauts have brushed up on lunar geology, even though they won't land.

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...