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

Eckerd’s Fossil Club has gone through some changes since last semester. The newly titled Geology Club plans to broaden the ...

USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground ...

The shape of the Earth's oceans and continents is dictated inexorable movements of the tectonic plates, but where did those ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan, November 15. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have agreed to establish a bilateral working group focused on ...

In Iceland’s Þingvellir National Park lies one of Earth’s rarest wonders — a submerged valley between two drifting continents ...

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

New research reveals that nickel and urea once throttled Earth’s earliest oxygen producers, delaying the planet’s ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing ...

As Australia races to scale up refining of rare earths, a thorny question looms: where does all the toxic wastewater go?

Morocco now produces more meteorite discoveries than anywhere on Earth, with some Martian and lunar fragments selling for millions of dollars.