NASA’s Curiosity rover has photographed a knobbly Martian rock that looks strikingly like a piece of ocean coral, a reminder ...

The exceptionally well-preserved fossils shine a light on the mass extinction that brought an end to the “Biological Big Bang.” ...

A strong polar vortex moved across North America not long ago. Temperatures around Niagara Falls plunged below −20°C, far colder than usual. The mist .

The human body, it turns out, is surprisingly good at making stone.Authors Katie Edwards Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine and Host of Strange ...

Iron-rich rocks at McGraths Flat preserve Miocene rainforest life in remarkable detail, reshaping ideas about how and where exceptional fossils form. Beneath agricultural land in the central ...

That makes Liang Metanduno the home of the oldest known artwork in the world, beating the previous contender (a Neanderthal ...

In southern China, the land rises not as hills or cliffs but as thousands of stone pillars, packed so tightly together that ...

A new study shows the monument’s most exotic stones did not arrive by chance but were instead deliberately selected and ...

The rock is estimated to be 3 billion years old. That places it among the oldest exposed rocks anywhere on Earth. Geologists ...

With its top peaking just 6 meters (20 feet) below sea level, extending down to a depth of 24 meters, the Yonaguni Monument ...

Astronomers have found what appears to be one of the strangest known worlds in the universe. It orbits a type of rapidly spinning neutron star called a pulsar – this in itself is unusual, but it is ...