No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never ...

The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

Greg lives in Indiana with his wife and two children. A growing number of banks are offering early direct deposit as a feature on their checking accounts. What that means for you is that ...

The thinning in the former is the result of sedimentary control during the early stages of paleouplift, with the lower parts of the first and second stages being absent; in the latter region, this is ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen ... life poked from the Earth.

"The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon, with discharge rates and flow velocities dwarfing any other known floods in Earth's history," said Dr. Aaron Micallef, lead author ...

Researchers from the University of Gottingen and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have now revealed it could have formed from material ejected from the Earth's mantle. Listen to ...

Study lead Professor Andreas Pack said: “One explanation is that Theia lost its rocky mantle in earlier collisions and then slammed into the early Earth like a metallic cannonball.

Scientists have stumbled upon a trio of tiny dwarf galaxies located about 6.5 million light-years away from Earth. Identified as Sculptor A ... They are exceptionally old and serve as real-life time ...