A mass extinction event wiped out around 90% of life. What followed has long puzzled scientists: The planet became lethally ...

From petrified forests to a fiery crater burning for 50+ years, these eight geological phenomena reveal Earth's mysterious forces.

The geologic time scale divides Earth’s 4.6 billion-year story into grandly named chapters. Like nesting dolls, the chapters contain sub-chapters, which themselves contain sub-sub-chapters.

The umbrella-shaped antenna, built by US space firm L3Harris, catches the returning signals and redirects them to the ...

Another attempt to introduce a new unit of geological time could now have to wait a decade. In the meantime, we remain in the Holocene epoch, which started at the end of the last ice age, some ...

As visitors walk through the new Evolution Garden at the Natural History Museum in London, they will journey through 540 million years of shifting ecosystems in 15 minutes. Every yard or so, they ...

Another attempt to introduce a new unit of geological time could now have to wait a decade. In the meantime, we remain in the Holocene epoch, which started at the end of the last ice age, some ...