For millions of years, the Earth has oscillated between ice ages and warmer episodes. The movements of the ground beneath our feet could play a much more important role in this cycle than previously ...

Scientists warn that a crack in Africa could create giant mountains in the future that could surpass the Himalayas.

The story of hummingbirds began millions of years ago, when a tectonic shift reshaped South America, and the Andes Mountains ...

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...

Planetary scientists have produced the first global map of small mare ridges on the Moon, adding new evidence that the lunar surface has been reshaped in geologically recent times by tectonic forces ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

How is carbon metabolized and processed in different ecosystems? In a study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, researchers led by Joely Maak, the study's first author and ...

How is carbon metabolized and processed in different ecosystems? In a recent study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, researchers led by Joely Maak, the study’s first author ...

The team, led by materials scientist Adel Djellouli at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, set out with a simple question: why do basketball shoes make that distinctive noise?

Witwatersrand Basin in South Africa, since the Archean Eon which is roughly 2.7 billion years old. This isn’t just an ordinary heap of debris sitting .

The Eye of the Sahara looks almost designed for satellite cameras, a perfect bullseye of rock and sand stamped into the western Sahara. From orbit, its nested rings stand out so sharply against the ...