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 ...

A Belfast group learned about Maine's glacial history during a walk led by retired geologist Chris Mattson. SWANVILLE, Maine ...

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.

Archaeologists uncover a mysterious Bronze Age ritual landscape in Murayghat with more than 95 ceremonial monuments.

Whether you visit Iceland in winter to see the Northern Lights or bask in the summer’s midnight sun, you’ll also soak up the positivity of an island where locals at threat from erupting volcanoes will ...

Archaeologists have recently proposed that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia, long considered the world’s oldest pyramid, ...