The Snowball Earth hypothesis has been largely based on evidence from sedimentary rocks exposed in areas that once were along ...

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

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

These “miniature trails of destruction,” as the researchers call them, are caused by high-energy particles bouncing off the nucleus inside a rock, which knocks that nucleus out of place. The resulting ...

A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains may hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick covered the entire planet.

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

It is called paleo-detection. The idea here is that there are rocks existing from the time when Earth formed. Dark matter may ...

A new study posits that our planet's gravity will cause seismic activity on Apophis when it makes its close approach in 2029.

The space rock, known as 2024 VM1, will fly past our planet on Wednesday at a minimum distance of around 193,000 miles.

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

Most kids are intrigued by simple things. How much more “down to earth” can you get than the ordinary rock? When we lived on ...