Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal ...

Redman played an energetic hometown set in Newark, while Busta Rhymes is forever the showman. Decades of hip-hop history ...

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

Smith Rock State Park is a world-renowned climbing destination, home to the 550-foot (168 meters) volcanic rock formation ...

The gold standard for determining the age of ancient rocks is measuring the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium into lead in minerals known as zircons. But not all rocks contain zircons, so ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...