“There’s more than a billion years that’s gone,” said Barra Peak, co-author of a 2021 study on this puzzling gap in Earth’s ...

A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.

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

A newly-dated geological timescale will help scientists connect NZ’s deep past to present day hazards, climate change and ...

Far beneath the Atlantic Ocean, about 1,000 kilometers off Portugal’s coast, lies a colossal underwater canyon system that ...

When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...

Scientists from the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the National Aviation and Space Museum of the United States have found that the Moon continues to shrink as its interior cools. This leads ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.1 struck near Portugal’s capital Lisbon on Thursday, but did not appear to cause any injuries or significant damage, the ...

An astonishing discovery has been made atop the world’s highest peak. Fossils of marine life have been uncovered at over ...