Lavas from hotspots - -whether erupting in Hawaii, Samoa or Iceland -- likely originate from a worldwide, uniform reservoir in Earth's mantle, according to an evaluation of volcanic hotspots.

A ring could explain a mysterious arrangement of impact craters near the equator and might even have caused an ice age, ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has made a groundbreaking discovery on Mars by uncovering pure sulfur crystals within a broken rock.

Research suggests Earth might have once boasted a spectacular ring similar to Saturn's, formed from an asteroid breakup ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are 'Snowball Earth' events that happened hundreds of millions of years ago, when almost the entire planet was encased in ice up to 0.

Little Rock Southwest High School teacher Dr. Justice Mason joined Little Rock Arc for a discussion about her takeaways from ...

"Secondly, it is cultural, as the San would have integrated fossils into their belief system, which may shed some light on ...

The artwork suggests that the San people of South Africa have an Indigenous knowledge of paleontology that predated Western ...

The majority of the NSF grant funding will go toward keeping both graduate and undergraduate students involved in the project ...

"It has the landscape; it looks like the Moon. And it has the scale of features astronauts will both be observing and exploring," NASA's Cindy Evans said.

Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to ...