Sep 2019
Findings on the Spanish coast of Mallorca hint at how oceans could respond to climate change
Ancient crystal growths in caves reveal seas rose 16 meters in a warmer world
May 2022
Parts of the Earth’s crust may have started sliding around about 3.8 billion years ago
Ancient zircons may record the dawn of plate tectonics
Oct 2020
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to collect material from the space rock
The asteroid Bennu’s brittle boulders may make grabbing a sample easier
Jul 2023
The proposed geologic epoch denotes when humans began profoundly changing the planet
Canada's Crawford Lake could mark the beginning of the Anthropocene
Jun 2020
Asteroid crater on the Yucatán peninsula reveals surprising new geologic details
Chicxulub collision put Earth’s crust in hot water for over a million years
Aug 2019
Studying such a pristine piece of early Earth may yield insights about the planet’s formation
Fluid in superdeep diamonds may be from some of Earth’s oldest unchanged material
Feb 2021
Abiotic objects that resemble microbes are much hardier than their biological brethren
Fossil mimics may be more common in ancient rocks than actual fossils
Dec 2020
After landing safely on Earth, a capsule holding samples from Ryugu is in Japan for analysis
Hayabusa2’s asteroid dirt may hold clues to the early solar system
Sep 2019
Chemical reactions involving iron could have increased oxygen-rich compounds in the mantle
How ancient oceans of magma may have boosted Earth’s oxygen levels
Dec 2019
Fossils in amber push the origin of feather-feeding insects back over 50 million years
Licelike insects munched on dinosaur feathers around 100 million years ago