Tucked away in Huntingdon County, Trough Creek State Park showcases rock formations so uniquely spectacular that geologists get misty-eyed just thinking about them, yet somehow this 541-acre ...

Most major geological events in Earth's recent history have clustered in 27.5-million-year intervals — a pattern that ...

Paleontologists combine biology, chemistry, and geology to understand the billions-year history of life on Earth. In Fossil ...

U.S. coal ash reserves could provide a domestic source of rare earth elements, potentially reducing reliance on Chinese ...

Abigail Chobany, a master's student in the University of Nevada, Reno’s Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering, ...

Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law by teaching biological evolution, ...

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...

Rare earth elements might sound like something out of science fiction, but they’re real—and essential to the modern world.

In 1921, William Bell Riley admonished his opponents that they should “cease from shoveling in dirt on living men,” for the ...

Carolyn Montgomery, 95, has admired Little Compton's stone walls all of her life, and she wants to ensure future generations ...

By confirming the age of these rocks, and that they might just be the oldest rocks on Earth, we’re finally opening the door ...

They're in the headlines every week—critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite and the rare earth elements ...