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 ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites ...

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

Recent scientific discoveries have challenged our understanding of the geology beneath the Himalayas, suggesting that a ...

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 ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: In the final installment in our series on geothermal energy, its availability in the West and the implications ...

Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history.

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?