Scientists have long thought that when the ocean is sealed under a kilometre-thick shell of ice, the usual connection between ...

In a recent paper published in Geology, scientists propose that certain kinds of wrinkle structures in sedimentary rock are the remnants of ancient microbial communites, similar to those found in deep ...

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

Scientists discovered that wrinkled rocks in Morocco were formed by deep sea microbes that survived without sunlight.

One of the latest projects is a new travertine façade for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in New York ...

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.

Most shark fossils are just teeth—their cartilage skeletons usually decay long before they can fossilize. But in northwestern Arkansas, a series of geological sites known as the Fayetteville Shale has ...

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

Millions of years shaped these giant formations in Sri Lanka, now standing as landmarks of nature and culture. PVL: Eya Laure debuts strong, knows there’s still room for more US.–Iran tensions heat up ...