The southwestern corner of Missouri might not be where most people imagine finding a portal to another world. But there it sits, tucked away in the town of Noel (pronounced “Nole,” not like Christmas) ...

NASA's Perseverance rover is digging deeper into Mars' geologic past as it begins grinding into rock surfaces to expose ...

Somewhere between Google Earth glitches and ancient prophecy, a new kind of internet mystery has taken hold. It doesn’t come ...

The gold standard for determining the age of ancient rocks is measuring the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium into lead in minerals known as zircons. But not all rocks contain zircons, so ...

Strata: Stories from Deep Time’ explores the origins of the air we breathe and untangles some of our planet’s oldest stories.

Baby names inspired by Greek history and mythology are gaining popularity in the US. From Athena to Zeus, there is a name for your new baby.

Did you know that some of the oldest human-made structures on Earth align precisely with the rising sun on the summer ...

Beneath the bogs of New Zealand’s Northland is a massive Ngāwhā kauri, living from 41,000 to 42,500 years ago, which gives an isolated, unbroken record of a period when Earth’s magnetic field declined ...

Hokkaido University researchers found ancient squids were the dominant ocean predators 100 million years ago - before dinosaurs went extinct.

Rocks dating back to the Earth’s Hadean Eon have finally had their antiquity confirmed as stretching back at least 4.16 ...

Discover how scientists found and dated the oldest rocks on the planet, and why studying them can help explain how life on ...

Modern-day environments in Antarctica contain ponds filled with life forms that closely resemble early multicellular ...