A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.

The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

A massive, well-preserved impact crater has been uncovered in Guangdong, revealing the signature of a powerful meteorite ...

A thin slice of the ancient rocks collected from Gakkel Ridge near the North Pole, photographed under a microscope and seen under cross-polarized light. Field width ~ 14mm. Analyzing rocks in thin ...

Among the hilly forests of southern China, scientists have discovered the largest modern meteorite impact crater on Earth.

The discovery could usher in a wave of investigations into the evolution of Earth’s mantle, a layer of material about 1,800 miles deep that extends from just beneath the planet’s thin crust to its ...

Scientists have solved the mysterious absence of star-shaped dunes from Earth's geological history for the first time, dating one back thousands of years. The study by Aberystwyth University, Birkbeck ...

POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) – Two Idaho State University scientists and their students are tackling a research project that will tell us more about the greatest of gaps in our understanding of Earth’s ...

A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide ...

Could Earth have hosted an advanced civilization before humans? This intriguing question is at the heart of the Silurian ...

A thin slice of the ancient rocks collected from Gakkel Ridge near the North Pole, photographed under a microscope and seen under cross-polarized light. Field width ~ 14mm. Credit: E. Cottrell, ...