Using images from cameras on Mars orbiters, an international research team has discovered structures on Mars that are very ...

From Cadillac Mountain to the billion-year-old Chain of Lakes Massif, Maine marks Old Rocks Day, exploring the state’s oldest ...

Ocean temperatures well below freezing in Earth’s deep-past glacial phases imply some very salty waters. At the height of a ...

The Peninsular Gneiss is a foundational rock formation that represents one of the earliest continental crusts formed on Earth ...

Australia's Finke River, an ephemeral waterway in the Northern Territory, is considered one of the world's oldest, with a ...

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

In Earth's fossil record, soft-bodied organisms like jellyfish rarely stand the test of time. What's more, it's hard for any ...

One of the standout findings from the Paleogene record is that rainfall patterns shifted dramatically during periods of ...

In India, many river names tend towards the mythical, the colour-based, or the regional, but geology-based nomenclature is not very common. However, t.

South Africa’s Witwatersrand Basin and the Virginia Gas Project supply a rare element vital for MRI scanners; estimates ...

Extending roughly 670 km along a south-west to north-east axis, the Aravalli Range stretches from the Delhi Ridge through ...

Historians and divers are trying to retrieve prehistoric clues from beneath the waves—but they have to act fast.