Scientists reached Antarctic bedrock after drilling 1.7 miles through more than a million years of ice deposits on the white continent, they announced Jan. 9.

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major ...

Geologists working in central China have quietly confirmed a gold discovery that now sits among the largest ever documented.

The United Nations has recognized China-Cambodia joint research in the karst critical zone as a prime example of South-South ...

Palaeolithic humans living on both sides of the Strait of Gibraltar were a creative bunch to say the least, and were ...

Perseverance rover found a rock on Mars named Phippsaksla with so much iron and nickel that it could be a meteorite.

Space mining often sounds like a fast route to endless metals. In practice, the first question is simple: what are small ...

China’s Wangu field in Hunan logs 40 veins near 2,000 m; models reach 3,000 m, with 300 already indicated and a valuation ...

Core samples pulled from beneath ice sheet suggests region is highly sensitive to the temperatures of our current ...

The Seven Sisters are a series of iconic chalk cliffs guarding the English Channel in Sussex. It is a beautiful, peaceful ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - You won’t find broken drumsticks, axe-shaped guitars and dragon-faced boots at a normal library - but one at the University of South Carolina makes an exception. The USC School ...