Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Fossils are so common in Pennsylvania Bluestone that Glass often points out prehistoric plant fragments and ancient tide ...

When hot minerals inside the Earth flow with magma at gaps between the tectonic plates and cool down, they can record the magnetic field of the surrounding region. Scientists have deduced the oxygen ...

From NOVA. NOVA Ancient Earth – Inferno * 252 million years ago, a devastating mass extinction wiped out about 90% of all species on Earth.

In 2018, Roger Summons, Schlumberger Professor of Geobiology at MIT and head of the Summons Lab in MIT’s Department of Earth, led a team to study meltwater ponds on Antarctica’s McMurdo Ice Shelf.

At the heart of the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is the world’s largest digital camera. About the size of a small car, it will create an unparalleled map of the night sky. The ...

The analysis reveals surprising patterns of life around those ancient structures, offering a fresh window onto evolution half a billion years ago. Animal reefs spanned ancient Nevada More than 514 ...

Today, the original lineage carried by ancient American dogs is almost nonexistent. When European settlers colonized the Americas, they brought Eurasian dogs whose ancestry is now expressed in the ...

A team of astronomers have put together the largest, most detailed map of the universe ever created – and you can explore it now.

The map extends through roughly 98% of all cosmic time, or 13.5 billion of the universe's 13.8 billion years. That (and its mind-boggling quantity of galaxies) means Webb's map dwarfs Hubble's ...

Scientists Accidentally Discovered an Ancient Underwater Island Packed With Rare Earth Elements China dominates the global rare earths industry—and it’s not even close.