Thomas Mulligan investigates the profound mystery of the Great Unconformity to uncover why over a billion years of Earth's ...

A new trail on Scotland's east coast takes travellers into Earth's ancient past, where scientists proved the planet was ...

Geoscientists at the University of Glasgow have helped reveal new evidence about the formation of one of the highest ...

Viscosity is one of the most fundamental physical properties used to describe how materials flow. It governs the movement of ...

Around three billion years ago, long before animals, forests, or even complex life existed, a large asteroid struck a young Earth. The collision happened at a time when the planet looked very ...

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...

This, as legend has it, is how the Giant’s Causeway was created. It’s a fantastic story, but science offers a different explanation. After studying this unique geological site for centuries, ...

Igneous AI, LLC, a startup co-founded by two geology PhDs from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has ...

Earth’s history has been shaped by five mass extinctions—catastrophic periods when life changed so dramatically that entire ...

In the 45°C heat of the midday April sun, I swing my sledgehammer into the terracotta-varnished lobes of pillow basalt ...

A speculative paper argues that ancient planetary flybys may have helped trigger some of Earth’s mass extinctions.

In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth’s oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years. They are dark, weathered volcanic rocks, close to 3.5 billion years old, cut ...