The Painted Desert in northern Arizona is a mesmerizing landscape of vibrant badlands stretching across the Colorado Plateau.

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm force winds, and created a waterfall 30 times taller than Niagara.

An aluminum tab from a drinks can found encased in a new form of rock on the Cumbrian coastline has helped provide scientists ...

Scientists leveraged a global camera network and doorbell cameras to track dozens of meteorites to their asteroid families.

Despite advanced satellite, electric current and seismic technologies, uncovering 100-year-old abandoned mines is a job the ...

A dramatic geological event millions of years ago led to a stunning drop in sea levels. New research reveals how this ancient ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

Researchers use the sophisticated technology on NASA's Perseverance rover to analyze volcanic rocks in Mars' Jezero Crater. Their findings show that some of the same volcanic processes that led to ...

The formation of the Great Lakes is the result of numerous geological events, the most recent of which involved massive Ice Age glaciers.

A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought.

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

The tiny insect, fossilized in a chunk of limestone in Brazil, is the oldest known ant specimen ever identified. Even better, ...