Vikings, volcanoes, and sheep don’t immediately seem like they should all be connected, but this unlikely trio is actually ...

Helium is slipping into a new era of scarcity just as the world leans on it more heavily for medicine, microchips and spaceflight. At the same time, geologists are uncovering clues that very old rocks ...

Earth is about 4.54 billion years old, but only a few rocks survive that were formed at the onset of the planet's history. These very ancient rocks are exceedingly uncommon because nearly all of Earth ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

A deep heat mass beneath the Appalachians appears to have started near a rift between Greenland and North America. Its slow southward journey reveals that ancient tectonic events still influence the ...

Alfred University Assistant Professor of Geology Kristian Olson met undergraduate Piper Moore in his Structural Geology class ...

There’s something for all on the Koppies. 1. Book a guided tour and explore billions of years of geological history and thousands of years of human history (072 348 0578). 2. Hike or trail-run the ...

A new radiocarbon study has clarified the timing of the colossal Thera eruption, placing it before Egypt’s New Kingdom.

New research reveals that ancient Mars once hosted vast river drainage systems comparable in scale to some of Earth’s major ...

JetBlue announces two new routes to and from RSW in Fort Myers I stayed in a pod at an airport for $50. It was tiny and a bit awkward, but I slept surprisingly well between my flights. My family just ...