Tucked between dramatic red rock formations and hugging the Arkansas River, Cañon City delivers small-town charm with big-time scenery – all without the tourist-trap prices that plague so many ...

Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona is a breathtaking landscape filled with colorful badlands, ancient fossils, and ...

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 ...

Talley’s documentary, The Stones Are Speaking, covers the saga of Collins’s groundbreaking discovery with a little more ...

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

Following the Mw 7.7 earthquake that rocked Myanmar and Bangkok in March, one globetrotter offers perspective on safe travel in the region.

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.

Many of our practices and behaviours go back four thousand years. For example, the Danish archaeologists found evidence that ...

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