A vast, geometric feature buried beneath the Pacific Ocean is forcing scientists to rethink what they know about Earth’s deep ...

A dark, carbon-rich layer of soil stretches across parts of North America like a bruise in the geologic record, a “black scar ...

Indonesian authorities say they are helping more than 170 climbers caught by Mount Semeru’s sudden eruption to return to ...

Climate history recorded in a calcite deposit in a southern Nevada cave indicates that the hot, arid southwestern United ...

Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time.

The Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains in South Africa, dating 3.6 billion years, offer one of Earth's oldest, best-preserved ...

The artist, who exhibited eight paintings in the Grande Galerie de l'Évolution natural museum in Paris, draws on a scientific approach to recreate the generative processes of natural forms on canvas.

Researchers have discovered chemical traces of life in rocks older than 3.3 billion years, offering a rare look at Earth’s ...

The shattering of Nuna may have built the perfect environment for life to evolve From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, ...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...