The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...

A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like ...

The discovery of the molecules was made with Nasa’s Curiosity rover, which examined a Martian rock named Cumberland. This is ...

Nearly all life-forms depend on the estimated 2.5 million fungi species on Earth, but they've been largely neglected by ...

When dinosaur fossils surface at a site, it is often not possible to tell how many millions of years ago their bones were ...

Only one of these patches of lunar plain can be Luna 9’s actual landing site – and there’s no guarantee that either of them is. But the search is oddly compelling.

As nations posture over access to rare earth deposits, scientists say these coveted materials are hiding in plain sight – and can be harvested without any conventional mining at all. In a lab in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core ...

Andrew Biggin receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council. While we have sent probes billions of kilometres into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our ...

Fans stopped by Down to Earth to try its newest limited-time smoothie, Da Island Dragon, a vibrant plant-based collaboration with Hawaiʻi-born social media star Bretman Rock. The smoothie officially ...

The most exciting rock known to science is a school-desk-sized chunk of mudstone currently stuck on Mars. Formed from fine, water-washed sediments on the floor of a long-lost lake—some 3.5 billion ...

The attraction is set to undergo a Muppets-themed overhaul that will debut in Summer 2026 Shutterstock; Lisa Lake/Getty Disney World has removed the Aerosmith preshow from the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster ...