Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

But what if that wasn't the only time in Earth's history that a space rock triggered an ancient apocalypse? In a new Netflix series, controversial author Graham Hancock claims that an ancient ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Rather than showing global warming is a "hoax," the paper reports that modern global warming is proceeding at an ...

Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s most unforgiving landscapes.

The S2 meteorite, discovered in 2014, was four times the size of Mount Everest and unleashed a tsunami bigger than any in known human history.

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

Bolivia’s Quebrada Honda Basin reveals ancient climate clues from 13 million years ago, offering insights for today’s climate challenges.

An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs ... “Our findings help link the plate tectonic history of the past 250 million years to present-day mantle ...

Nov. 1, 2024 — New research has found that, unlike birds, the evolution of bats' wings and legs is tightly coupled, which may have prevented them from filling as many ecological niches as ..

If Earth's history were a calendar year ... "By studying the ways ancient geologic processes modulated temperature in Earth's past, we can better understand climate sensitivity and predict ...