The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...

Ancient rocks formed by volcanoes could safely store millions of tonnes of carbon dioxide by turning it to stone, researchers ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Cemented dunes in Gale Crater reveal evidence of late-stage water that may have preserved organic signals beneath the Martian ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

Recent discoveries have shed new light on the history of Mars, revealing evidence of ancient underground water that suggests the planet may have been habitable for longer than previously believed.

Bucknell University Professor Jeffrey Trop, geology and environmental geosciences, is one of the recipients of a National ...

Waves in Earth's mantle created by the rifting of continents may peel the planet's crust from below, feeding volcanoes in the middle of the ocean.

Pairing cutting-edge chemistry with artificial intelligence, a multidisciplinary team of scientists today published fresh ...