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

Guy Plint is no stranger to tracking prehistoric beasts. Over the past 40 years, the Western Earth Sciences professor emeritus has studied the ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

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

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

A team of Chinese and foreign scientists has discovered underground sedimentary layers on Mars that appear to have been shaped by oceanic activity, providing new evidence that water once existed at ...

This sediment layer showed a resemblance to Earth's coastal sedimentary layers, sloping at an angle of about 15 degrees towards the direction of the coastline. Based on this evidence, the research ...

Stone tools recently discovered in Ukraine could potentially rewrite history as the oldest evidence of human presence in ...

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