For the first time, Japan has carved out a spot for itself among the hundred or so geologic ages recognized by scientific organizations. The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

Scientists have traced the origins of the Lafayette Meteorite back to Mars, dating its water-altered minerals to 742 million ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

Basalt samples returned by the Chang’e-6 mission have revealed volcanic events on the lunar farside at 2.8 billion years ago ...

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

The study identified when water interacted with the meteorite and established that the dating was unaffected by events after ...

China's Chang'e-6 robotic spacecraft in June made history by retrieving the first surface samples from the far side of the ...

University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the Earth's surface.

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

A sliver of Martian rock that once lay hidden in a university drawer has helped researchers better understand the Red ...