The Sterling Mine, the last operating mine in New Jersey, suspended large-scale commercial mining operations in 1986. Since ...

Chinese geologists claim to have discovered a record-smashing 1,000-tonne deposit of g old in the country’s northeast, ...

NASA's Perseverance rover has encountered another rock on Mars that has left scientists puzzled.

Manufactured objects will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to human existence, paleontologist authors ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...

Lake Tahoe’s geological history underscores the ecological and cultural significance of this incredible place. Recent ...

A 30-meter sediment core from Belize's Great Blue Hole reveals 5,700 years of hurricane history, showing a sharp rise in ...

Scientists Crack Mystery Behind Large Slabs of the Earth's Crust That Went 'Missing' From Geological Records The Earth is no ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day ...

Scientists have have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.