For modern residents of the Levant, the "Red Sea Trough" usually brings a brief, dusty transition between seasons. But ...

Scientists at Curtin University have uncovered a new way to read the deep history of Earth’s landscapes using microscopic zircon crystals from ancient beach sands. These incredibly durable minerals ...

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There's a billion-year gap in Earth's geological history. A new study seeks to explain the mystery.

If you look back through the billions of years of Earth’s history, you realize that the ground beneath you is anything but ...

With the tercentenary of ‘the founder of modern geology’ just months away, plans are afoot to improve access to the places ...

For much of the last 485 million years, the global climate fluctuated wildly between extremely hot and extremely cold weather, findings that researchers said have major implications for today’s ...

How can we measure time more than 500 million years into the past? A study recently published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Lausanne presents a new geological "rock ...

An international team of scientists has returned from the heart of West Antarctica with 228 metres of ancient rock and mud, the longest core ever retrieved from below an ice sheet. Preliminary dating, ...

Imagine a time when the blue planet looked nothing like it does today. A time when the oceans were frozen over, the continents were locked in a thick .

"The current rapid rise in day length can thus be attributed primarily to human influences," said professor Benedikt Soja.

Strange spiderweb-like ridges on Mars may reveal groundwater lasted longer than scientists thought.