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

The Aquinnah Cliffs Overlook delivers the kind of jaw-dropping scenery that usually requires international airfare, a ...

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 ...

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 ...

New geological evidence suggests that the slow wobble of Earth’s axis may have triggered rapid climate swings during the Late Cretaceous greenhouse world.

The phenomenon of the "Great Dissonance", where about a billion years are missing from the Earth's rocks, may finally be ...

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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A river in Australia may have been flowing for 300 to 400 million years, long before dinosaurs existed. How did the ancient Finke River survive dramatic geological changes for so long?

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

This low-angle self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target called “Buckskin” on lower Mount Sharp.

A 23-million-year record hidden beneath Antarctica’s ice may reshape forecasts of how rising temperatures affect global ...