A massive meteorite that struck Earth early on in its history wreaked havoc on the planet, but the impact may have allowed ...

Most major geological events in Earth's recent history have clustered in 27.5-million-year intervals — a pattern that ...

New evidence found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado supports the notion that Snowball Earth was indeed a global phenomenon.

"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

SpaceX astronaut Jared Isaacman said frequent space travel is "around the corner." How humans will survive off-world is ...

The Arecibo message contained an image of a man only. But what might seem a sexist choice deserves a more subtle ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

A rare Triassic fossil unearthed in Brazil, Gondwanax paraisensis, could provide new insights into the origins of dinosaurs.

Discover the fascinating history of Mother Earth Brewing in Kinston and learn about their commitment to sustainability, ...