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

A potential new mineral on Mars forms when iron sulfates are heated above 100°C. Data from Valles Marineris regions suggest ...

Much of our understanding of Earth's past is derived from stratigraphic records exposed in rock outcrops or recovered from drilled cores. These records span immense time intervals, from thousands to ...

New findings suggest that the Moon's early magnetic field was quite different from what many theories predicted.

In the rocky highlands of northern Vietnam, Lung Cam Village endures as a living archive of Mông culture. Set in Sung La ...

Just as geology created the conditions for human habitation in the Fertile Crescent, those same tectonic movements created ...

Recent advances in AI are helping scientists unlock new secrets about the Moon’s far ...

Since Benjamin Netanyahu, after being shown a map of a so-called “Greater Israel” during a television interview last year, voiced his support and sentimental attachment to the “historical and ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where ...

A 4.9 magnitude earthquake struck Red River Parish, Louisiana, early Thursday morning, marking the second-largest earthquake ...

The quake was the second largest in the state's history ...