Most major geological events in Earth's recent history have clustered in 27.5-million-year intervals — a pattern that scientists call the "pulse of the Earth." ...

Utah's gorgeous natural arches are wonders to behold. However, the same processes that formed them are still at work, so we ...

Under the world’s biggest iron ore deposits lies a 1.3 billion-year-old secret.

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want ...

Dating to the Cretaceous period, the geological era between 145.5 and 66 million years ago, the sedimentary rocks far underneath East Texas and Louisiana contain significant undiscovered energy ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was ...

But it’s also a term with a specific technical meaning: an epoch, or geologic unit of time, named for humans. In 2009, a group of scientists first started investigating whether the Anthropocene ...

China has officially unveiled the world’s only high-definition “geologic atlas” of the entire moon, the first major update of such basic lunar data since Nasa’s Apollo-era programme in the ...

has had enough of an impact to create what can be considered a new geologic era. After all, scientists repeatedly remind us that our rapidly-heating planet is sending us into "uncharted territory ...

Some scientists are calling it the Anthropocene era, or the age of the humans ("anthropos" is Greek for human), and argue that geologists should recognize it as a distinct chapter in Earth's history.

PARIS, France — A top panel of geologists has decided not to grant the 'human age' its own distinct place in Earth's geological timeline after disagreeing over when exactly our era might have begun.

or era of humans, in the mid-20th century. But the proposal was rejected in a contentious vote that has been upheld by the International Union of Geological Sciences, the field's governing body ...