The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring ...

Geological evidence of the transition when Earth was plunged into a planetary-wide deep-freeze discovered in ancient Scottish rocks. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

The discovery could usher in a wave of investigations into the evolution of Earth’s mantle, a layer of material about 1,800 miles deep that extends from just beneath the planet’s thin crust to its ...

A thin slice of the ancient rocks collected from Gakkel Ridge near the North Pole, photographed under a microscope and seen under cross-polarized light. Field width ~ 14mm. Credit: E. Cottrell, ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...

America’s geological wonders don’t need erupting volcanoes to create breathtaking spectacles that look straight out of a ...

KARATU: A NEW chapter in Tanzania’s heritage unfolds under the wide skies of Karatu, Arusha. On 16 October 2025, the Vice ...

I had no intention of going into science. In my early teens, I wanted to be a jockey and was firmly convinced I would never weigh more than 100 pounds. I quickly exceeded that weight cap and switched ...