Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

"The aurora does not need to be directly overhead but can be observed from as much as a 1,000 km [621 miles] away when the aurora is bright and if conditions are right," the agency explains on its ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture fossil was found in volcanic rock. Scientists discovered microscopic feather details preserved in ...

A team of geologists at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, the Institute of Space Sciences and the Shandong ...

New research published this week in Geology suggests that the two realms were more connected than previously thought. As massive glaciers scratched and scarred Earth’s rocky surface, they freed ...

The mass extinction that killed 80% of life on Earth 250 million years ago may not have been quite ... Only a handful of ...

Scientists have found unusual, blueberry-like rocks on Mars that could give us more insights into its geological history.

Experts analyzed satellite imagery of planetary surface cracks and compared them with Earth's geologic features, searching ...

Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

Scientists Crack Mystery Behind Large Slabs of the Earth's Crust That Went 'Missing' From Geological Records The Earth is no ...

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...