The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...

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

A groundbreaking discovery unveils a new type of rock forming at an astonishing speed, challenging traditional geological timelines.

The fossil, estimated to be about 70 million years old, was buried 763 feet below the surface and unearthed because of a ...

A major California fault once thought to be stable is quietly shifting beneath neighborhoods, schools, and it could lead to a ...

Denver Museum of Nature and Science researchers discovered what they are calling it the oldest and deepest dinosaur fossil ...

Known as stratigraphic inversion, this discovery challenges our fundamental understanding of how Earth’s layers are formed. A ...

This is a scientifically and historically thrilling find for both the Museum and the larger Denver community,” said Dr. James Hagadorn, the curator of geology at the Denver Museum of Nature and ...

The concept isn’t hypothetical. Tephra layers in Icelandic peat cores show that eruptions soared six-fold between 12,000 and ...

Perhaps this is why I’ve found such resonance in the work of American geologist Marcia Bjornerud, who urges us to begin ...

In Denver, scientists uncovered a 67.5-million-year-old dinosaur fossil deep underground — and by chance, it just so happened to be buried underneath the parking lot of a museum that houses similar ...

Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests ...