Specifically, the findings support the hypothesis that supernovae could have triggered two of the so-called "big five" mass ...

A region in China’s Turpan-Hami Basin served as a refugium - or “life oasis”- for terrestrial plants during the end-Permian ...

Millions of years ago, our Solar System traveled through a densely populated galactic region and was exposed to increased interstellar dust.

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

A new study suggests glaciers carved metals out from the Earth’s surface 700 million years ago, leading to chemical reactions ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

As massive glaciers scratched and scarred Earth’s rocky surface, they freed less-common minerals, which were later flushed into the seas as the ice melted into giant glacial rivers. These minerals in ...

A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than scientists thought.

This week, geologists announced they discovered the world's oldest known impact crater. It's in Western Australia's ancient ...

Step aside, Santa Monica. It seems that Mars once had beaches that would give the Californian coast a run for its money.

Explore the geological history and applications of the Dutch subsurface in the new edition of the book 'Geology of the ...

The discovery of a 3.47-billion-year-old crater in WA's Pilbara region pushes back the age of the earliest-known impact site on Earth by more than one billion years.