Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Cemeteries not only provide a peaceful place to contemplate and commemorate the dead. They are also great places for studying ...

A Virginia Tech-led team is hunting for dark matter — not with telescopes or particle colliders — but by scrutinizing billion ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

The devastation of a giant meteorite impact on early Earth may have allowed life to flourish, new research suggests.

To study if R. palustris could extract molybdenum from molybdenite, the researchers first created a mutant strain with its ...

Petrified wood forms through a process known as permineralization, which happens under very specific conditions. It all starts with the burial of organic plant material—trees and other types of ...

Geologic mapping has been one of the most fundamental mandates of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) since its establishment ...

A discussion of deep-sea mining of critical minerals on the ocean floor, the importance of critical minerals for the clean ...

Although the consequences of a quarter of the planet’s water melting could be determined theoretically, this is the first ...

Some gemstones are crystals, such as amethyst, which is a variety of the mineral quartz and is often cut into gemstone form. Not all crystals get the gemstone treatment, however (just look at poor old ...

DART's goal was to examine how well a planetary defense strategy in moving a threatening space rock away from Earth. Hera will examine the collision from a nearby vantage point, providing a different ...