Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.

REEs such as niobium, tantalum and ytterbium have been discovered in igneous rock layers – similar to the discovery (and ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

These universal truths form the shared foundation upon which a great deal of rigorous and robust merit-based inquiry is ...

Dinosaur eggshells, once treated as background scenery in fossil digs, have turned out to be some of the most precise ...

Located just about 30 miles east of Colorado Springs in El Paso County, this geological wonderland somehow remains one of the ...

Ocean temperatures well below freezing in Earth’s deep-past glacial phases imply some very salty waters. At the height of a ...

According to observations of young ridges see on the far side, Earth's moon is not geologically dead, as previously believed.

The island’s concentration of natural resource wealth is tied to its hugely varied geological history over four billion years ...

Fossilized bones and teeth dating to 773,000 years ago are providing a deeper understanding of the emergence of Homo sapiens.

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that some of Earth’s oldest rocks, dating back 3.7 billion years, ...