Climate history recorded in a calcite deposit in a southern Nevada cave indicates that the hot, arid southwestern United ...

Earthquake faults deep in the Earth can glue themselves back together following a seismic event, according to a new study led ...

Amassive chain of extinct volcanoes has been discovered deep below southern China, revealing a hidden piece of Earth’s ...

The shattering of Nuna may have built the perfect environment for life to evolve From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, ...

About 300 years have passed since anyone has known about Okinawa’s past climate and geological history. But researchers at ...

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 ...

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time.

A panoramic aerial drone image of the Jinlin crater with the approximate location of the crater rim labeled, with an insert ...

This past spring, Swanson passed the milestone of having 50,000 students take the class from him over the years. It’s a number larger than the population of the British Columbia town he grew up in. He ...

Chinese scientists have become the first to visit one of Earth’s most remote and geologically intriguing realms: an ...

This is meatloaf elevated to an art form while still respecting its humble origins. The loaf arrives as a generous slab, its ...