Earth is far from a static place. That's true in the present, but it's even more apparent when you look to the past, as Earth ...

Earth scientists often face huge challenges when researching Earth's history: many significant events occurred such a long ...

An international team including University of Tennessee, Knoxville Professor Alycia Stigall, offers a new way to examine the ...

When the remains of prehistoric creatures were discovered in Europe and the United States, it opened up a vociferous debate ...

Hawaiʻi is no stranger to the ocean’s power. Most people know tsunamis as towering waves caused by earthquakes far across the ...

Raleigh Parks and Recreation's 'All About Fossils' event educated attendees on fossil formation and significance in North Carolina.

Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...

From massive glaciers to sun-soaked beaches, national parks offer some of America’s wildest and most iconic landscapes.

F or two million years, Earth witnessed constant rain that changed the planet significantly, resulting in 2 million years of rainfall, which even led to a rise in dinosaur populations. Researchers ...

Silverpit crater, 80 miles off Yorkshire, was formed 43 million years ago by an asteroid impact, says Scientists, ending decades of debate over its origin beneath the North Sea.

In June 1930, the New York Times ran a story commemorating the 1000th anniversary of the convening of the world’s first ...

NASA has selected its next round of astronaut candidates, or ASCANs, from a pool of 8,000 candidates. The final selection of ...