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 ...

The newly identified deposit in Western Australia’s Pilbara is being hailed as the largest iron ore formation ever discovered, with estimates suggesting it contains around 55 billion metric tons of ...

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

The fossils offer a rare glimpse into a cataclysmic event that brought a sudden end to the greatest explosion of life in our ...

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

NASA scientists are turning to the Moon to solve one of Earth’s oldest mysteries: where our water came from. A new study led by the US space agency uses Moon soil collected during the ...

As worldwide demand for rare earth elements and other similar minerals rises – as do tensions among the United States, China ...