Welcome to Red Rock Canyon State Park. Tucked away in Cantil, California, where the Mojave Desert meets the southernmost tip ...

Before the rise of dinosaurs, Earth was a vastly different place, teeming with life in forms that were strange and unlike ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

Early Hohokam lived in pithouses dug into the ground with walls made of wood, brush, and clay. These partly underground homes ...

A study of fossils from the Permian-Triassic extinction event 252 million years ago shows that forests in many parts of the ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has begun drilling into a rock on Mars as it tries to collect more information about the Red Planet ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

An ancient climate tipping point is revealed in new fossils dating back to Earth’s most severe extinction event, called the ...

Triassic Mass Extinction, also known as the "Great Dying," which occurred around 252 million years ago and wiped out nearly ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.