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

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

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, ...

Strange features of a collision point between pieces of Earth's crust are evidence that the structure may be nearing its end, ...

The term “ecosystem engineering” has been used for decades as a way to describe organisms that drastically alter their ...

The PRI has until Dec. 31, 2025 to raise $1 million or the only collections based national history museum between New York ...

Earth's crust once formed a dense "root" supporting Colombia's northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, but new research suggests this prop sank into the mantle millions of years ago. When you ...

The Fellowship did not begin the Quest in the Shire; nor did the Quest end in the darkest depths of Mordor. There was no trekking through the Mines of Moria, and the Plains of Rohan remain untrod, for ...

Our planet does have a new travel buddy in the form of a tiny quasi-moon that will be with us for another 60 years.

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 ...