To say that a trip from Earth to Mars is merely a long one would be a massive understatement. On July 30, 2020, when the ...

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

The Foundation of Mountain Building Mountain building, also known as orogenesis, is a geological process that involves the ...

NASA’s latest images from Mars show a rock that looks less like a random boulder and more like something deliberately carved, ...

The Eye of Sahara (Richat Structure) is a 40km geological dome in Mauritania, formed by uplift and erosion. It is visible ...

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

New study reveals tiny chemical clues in ancient rocks, showing that early life and early photosynthesis appeared much earlier than thought.

UB earth sciences students develop valuable fieldwork skills during a trip to New Hampshire to study igneous rocks and ...

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 ...

Bear Butte's well-maintained summit trail climbs 1,000 feet through sedimentary rock formations to reach South Dakota's ...

The famed rock formations in Biri town, Northern Samar, have been officially declared the newest national geological monument (NGM) in the country, marking a major step in Northern ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover finds possible biological traces in Martian rocks — the strongest hint yet that life may have ...