From the surface, Earth looks like a relatively ordinary rocky planet, wrapped in clouds and a thin blue atmosphere. A new ...

In a recent study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, researchers suggest that Earth once had a giant, ...

“The Beam” - Analysis of the Route 2 outcrop, South Hero, by Stanley, R., 1990, The evolution of mesoscopic imbricate thrust faults - an example from the Vermont ...

Rocks are having a moment, at least the ones "sold" at Anthropologie are. In the last few weeks, the clothing and home goods store been going viral over a prank that continues to spread across social ...

An 80 km-long unexplored subsurface detachment fold, the Eureka structure, exists in the southern Appalachian thrust belt just east of the Cumberland escarpment in eastern Tennessee. The Eureka ...

The world's oldest rocks are spread across the globe and paint a picture of Earth's turbulent early history. Here are some of the most notable and important formations scientists have discovered. When ...

Earth may once have had a vast ring system circling the planet, very similar to Saturn’s rings, according to a recent study. These rings seem to have formed around 466 million years ago, during a ...

All large bodies in the solar system have rings. Even Mars is believed to have had a ring in the past, which raises the question of whether Earth also had a ring in the past. Ordovician Period, in ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Thousands of people attend concerts for their favorite artists every year at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Denver — the “only naturally-occurring, acoustically perfect amphitheater in the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Thousands of people attend ...

The authors of “A History of Life in 100 Fossils” write about the secrets of the animal kingdom Paul D. Taylor and Aaron O'Dea Fossils can illustrate evolutionary themes: speciation, evolutionary ...