Throughout Earth's history, ice caps have been very rare, but a model of the past 420 million years suggests an explanation ...

Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth's geological history. A research team has discovered an unexpected ...

Most major geological events in Earth's recent history have clustered in 27.5-million-year intervals — a pattern that ...

The Weis Earth Science Museum, Wisconsin’s only dedicated geological history museum, faces an uncertain future as UW Oshkosh ...

Scientists have identified an anomaly linked to the rise in beryllium-10 levels in ocean sediments on the Pacific Ocean floor ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Scientists at Yale and in Singapore have devised what may be the ultimate acid test—a comprehensive model for estimating the ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

Lunar: A history of the moon in myths, maps and matter tells the story of the coexistence between humanity and the celestial ...

The surface of Earth's inner core may be shape-shifting ... core and its structure and dynamics to say something about the history of the dynamics of the deepest part of the planet," Buffett ...

New research suggests an ancient hotspot helped shape the Great Lakes, challenging traditional formation theories.

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.