Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is filled with exhibits of dinosaur skeletons. And in the scientific equivalent of ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

The discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in Western Australia. But not everyone is convinced ...

Long-standing questions about the migration of early modern humans in East Asia may finally be answered, thanks to a rare and ...

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...

The EPA is trying to fight cloud seeding conspiracy theories. It chose the worst way to do it. Let's start with the facts.

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.