The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

Microfossils have a tendency to muck with our timeline of when life formed on Earth. As their name suggests ... discovered the first microfossils in Precambrian rock in 1953, it pushed the ...

Sudwala Caves, found in the dramatic Drakensberg escarpment, stand as the world's oldest known caves, formed approximately ...

But the career of the Earth recedes into a remoteness against ... Devonian and Carboniferous rocks is fairly definite. The numbers for Precambrian times, which I have added parenthetically to ...

Some climbers dream of ascending Yosemite's dangerous El Capitan, while others have their eyes on the thrilling yet safer Via Ferrata in Banff National Park. But for those in the know, there's a ...

The prevailing theory had been that the moon was the result of a collision between early Earth and the protoplanet Theia. New measurements indicate that the moon formed from material ejected from ...

New measurements suggest mysterious continent-sized masses in our planet’s lower mantle may be extremely stable features ...

The findings also question established theories about Earth's water. The Late Veneer Event theory, which posits that water arrived after the moon's formation, is being revisited. Meike Fischer ...

The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the ...

suggesting that at some point in Earth's history, the tectonic plate that formed them changed the direction of its movement. "I'm very surprised by the abyssal hills,” Yu said, because the ...