They say Mars' mantle has created a 'geological time capsule' of when the planet was first formed billions of years ago. “What we found was quite unexpected ...

The ground beneath us isn't as stable as we'd like to think. While we go about our daily lives, some of Earth's most ...

Professor Jody Webster examines a fossil coral reef core from the Great Barrier Reef soon after it is brought on deck. New research led by the University of Sydney adds to our understanding of how ...

Geological time, generally considered as a system of eras, periods and epochs materialized in rock strata, might actually follow a simple and unifying model. Indeed, a new study led by physicist Shaun ...

This article is part of a package in collaboration with Forbes on time capsules, preserving information and communicating with the future. Read more from the report. Stuff is old where I live, in ...

Earth's 4.5 billion year geological history is full of death and rebirth, mass extinctions and explosions of biodiversity, with different periods often marked by cataclysmic changes that radically ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have voted against a proposal to declare a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene to reflect how profoundly human ...

Diamonds present at the birth of the Okavango Delta have a lasting connection to this landscape and are playing a unique role in its conservation today. 3:41 Geological time and tectonic forces have ...

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Every half-million years or so, for unknown reasons, the earth’s magnetic field suddenly flips. Within a period of 10,000 years—a mere instant on the geological time scale—the north and south magnetic ...