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

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 ...

You might not know it, but Ireland is dotted with extinct volcanoes that have shaped the island we know and love today ...

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's ...

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 ...

Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its fossil-rich basin has helped scientists piece together the story of human evolution.

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

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 ...

The Indonesian coast was struck by four earthquakes over the past 24 hours, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

The break up of the supercontinent Nuna transformed the Earth’s surface, creating shallow marine habitats that may have given ...