Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

Scientists uncover signs of ancient microbes in a place no one expected, challenging everything we knew about life’s origins.

Miners drilling through limestone in Chihuahua, Mexico, broke into an extraordinary chamber in 2000 and found something that defied geological expectations: gypsum crystals taller than telephone poles ...

Fresh ideas for a first trip, quieter stops, bigger views, and the kind of places you’ll want to bookmark for your next visit.

A team of geophysicists has traced the origins of Earth’s most extreme gravitational anomaly, a vast depression beneath Antarctica where the pull of gravity is measurably weaker than anywhere else on ...

Big Stone Lake State Park occupies prime lakefront property on the eastern shore. The park offers hiking trails that take you ...

But hiding along a stretch of Interstate 90 in Central Washington is a geological marvel that rivals anything you’d find on ...

A unique technique allowed astronomers to see the early universe as a "sea of light" and explore the effects of gravity and ...

Zircon crystals have provided scientists with an invaluable tool for dating the Earth, revealing its true age to be around 4.54 billion years old.

In the 20th century, scientists began to suspect Earth was a lot older than we thought. It was our old friends/deadly foes, ...

Discover Old Faithful Geyser in Calistoga, California, a rare geyser that erupts like clockwork in Napa Valley’s geothermal landscape.

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 ...