At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

The 700–1,300 feet-wide space rock deformed rocks more than six miles from the impact site when it hit 600 million years ago.

A surprising discovery in the feathers of a fossil vulture from central Italy has revealed that volcanic deposits can preserve delicate tissue structures in unprecedented detail, offering new insights ...

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi developed the Emirates Lunar Simulant, a material mimicking moon dust. This breakthrough will ...

Guy Plint is no stranger to tracking prehistoric beasts. Over the past 40 years, the Western Earth Sciences professor emeritus has studied the ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - Elementary students finally get to play on new turf at a few schools in Santa Maria. The kids are ...

A fun school day out in California ended in unimaginable tragedy after a group of teenagers decided to break the water park ...

In the heart-wrenching event on June 2, 1997, Quimby Ghilotti, a 17 year old about to graduate, tragically lost her life ...

Around 600 million years ago, Earth was home to strange, soft-bodied sea creatures, but a powerful asteroid impact in what is ...

New research suggests the violent explosions of dying stars may have caused two of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions millions ...

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

It turns out Europe’s favorite American import isn’t fast food or Netflix. It’s missiles, and Europe needs to start making ...