Since their formation billions of years ago, the oldest parts of the Earth’s continental rocks have generated natural ...

Volcanoes act as windows deep into Earth. They help us understand the formation of our planet and the others in our solar ...

Scientists recently identified the oldest material on Earth: stardust that's 7 billion years old, tucked away in a massive, ...

Hidden high in the White Mountains of eastern California, a gnarled, weathered tree quietly holds a staggering secret — it’s ...

Soft-bodied Cambrian fossils found in the Grand Canyon reveals how early animals evolved complex feeding systems over 500 ...

The ice cores could offer clues about a period known as the Mid-Pleistocene Transition that has long puzzled scientists ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

Rocks gathered along the Colorado River contained evidence of a bustling community of animals in an ancient sea.

Archaeologists in central Israel are excavating one of the world's oldest-known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years.

Paleontologists unearthed fossils in the Grand Canyon dating back more than 500 million years that offer a new look into a ...