Somewhere beneath the Great Plains, water is reacting with iron-rich rock and quietly producing hydrogen gas. No factory. No ...

The Canadian fossils belong to the White Sea group. But they appear to be around 567 million years old – 5 to 10 million ...

A technique that has rewritten the timeline of prehistoric art may be overestimating the ages of cave paintings, some ...

A new atlas charts the global distribution of unusual, critical-metal-bearing igneous rocks, finding that they often form ...

A hidden crater in South Korea may hold clues to one of the biggest turning points in Earth’s history: the rise of oxygen. Scientists discovered fossil-like stromatolites — layered structures built by ...

Life on Earth became complex very slowly. Before forests, fish, or dinosaurs existed, tiny cells called eukaryotes appeared. These cells later gave rise to plants, animals, and fungi. Scientists have ...

High on the Franklin Mountains, the Thunderbird formation combines billions of years of geological history with rich ...

From butterflies to blue whales, corals and worms, Earth is home to an incredible diversity of animals. How all of these ...

Within the oldest crystals in the world, collected from Western Australia’s Jack Hills, lie the remnants of even older rocks ...

Eukaryote fossils can be found around the world in rocks dating back at least 1.5 billion years. The fossils of the Northern ...

For NASA's Perseverance Rover, life on Mars has been a marathon, not a sprint. For more than five years, the six-wheeled robotic explorer has been steadily traversing the Martian ​surface seeking ...

Study of Eastern Ghats rocks in Andhra Pradesh finds matching geological history with East Antarctica, confirming India and ...