Learn how the fossils of ancient organisms help scientists navigate deep time — and uncover Earth’s hidden history.

Despite seeming like a relatively stable place, the Earth's surface has changed dramatically over the past 4.6 billion years. Mountains have been built and eroded, continents and oceans have moved ...

The Rock Cycle is Earth's great recycling process where igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks can all be derived from and form one another. Analogous to recycling a Coke can, where an old can ...

According to a study, white-coloured meteorites made of sedimentary rocks on Earth can help in establishing the proof of life on Mars. LONDON: Sedimentary rocks have long been thought to be the most ...

It's not clear when or where life on this planet began, but scientists are working hard to find out. Now, researchers writing in the journal Nature say they found fossils of what could be some of the ...

There are three types of rock found on Earth. These are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. Each rock type is formed in a different way. For example, the rock malachite is mostly made of the ...

(CNN) -- Scientists looking at satellite images of Mars have detected evidence of sedimentary rock dating back billions of years, suggesting that the planet once teemed with large lakes. If Mars ...

Where should scientists hunt for evidence of Martian life? On Earth, at least, they should scout for white-coloured meteorites made of sedimentary rock, a new study suggests. Two rocks dropped from ...

The Canary Islands, an autonomous community of Spain west of Morocco, spreads more than 300 miles across the Atlantic in an archipelago akin to Hawaii. Like the Aloha State, the Canaries were born ...

New images of the surface of Mars have revealed numerous layered outcrops similar to sedimentary rocks on Earth, strongly suggesting that liquid water was present on Mars at an early stage in its ...