Crystals hidden in Australia’s oldest rocks have revealed new clues about how Earth and the Moon formed. The study suggests ...

Far beneath central Turkey, a dense slab of rock is peeling away from the bottom of the continent and sinking into the mantle ...

Australia’s ancient rocks are acting like natural clocks, revealing how landscapes changed over billions of years through ...

In the past few billion years, Earth has been pummeled by asteroids, crashed into other planets and frozen over several times ...

Australia's iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of ...

Visitors can wander through halls filled with dinosaur fossils, mounted mammals, minerals and global wildlife specimens.

​​Rivers may seem as old as the hills, but they have life cycles just like other natural features do. Many grow and make ...

Earth’s first sponges may have been ghostly, soft-bodied pioneers—ancient animals that evolved long before their skeletons ...

Australia’s iconic red landscapes have been home to Aboriginal culture and recorded in songlines for tens of thousands of ...

In virtually every piece of land on Earth—from near the summit of Mount Everest to Antarctica to caves nearly 2,000 meters ...

The Moroccan fossils now provide tangible evidence from this mysterious transitional period. What makes these fossils particularly significant is the precision with which they can be dated. The ...

Researchers find that shifts in Earth’s orbit can trigger abrupt climate changes, even in warm periods without ice sheets.