International Rock Day is observed every year on July 13 to recognise the natural wonders of rocks and stones and their ...

Usually, geologic layers build on one another, with younger rocks piling on top of older ones. A new study, however, shows ...

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

Key Takeaways on Earth's Inner Core Earth's inner core is solid and blistering hot. For decades, scientists have known ...

The partial vertebra appeared inside a 2.5-inch-diameter column of rock that researchers drilled, earning the title of the ...

A museum in Denver has found a fossil that is almost 70 million years old under its parking lot while running an unrelated ...

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science already houses a vast trove of dinosaur bones, but it recently received an unexpected ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological formation.

The Worcester area has evidence of the Mesoproterozoic Era, going back to the earliest known days of the present-day Earth's ...

Somewhere between Google Earth glitches and ancient prophecy, a new kind of internet mystery has taken hold. It doesn’t come ...