Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice.

Snowball Earth theory gets a boost from Colorado rock findings Tava sandstone formation provides key evidence for global ice ...

A supernova close enough to Earth could strip the ozone layer and cause mass extinction, but no immediate threat exists.

Until now, Antarctica was the only continent on Earth without any known amber fossils. But sediment cores taken from below the seafloor have revealed a tiny piece of fossilized resin holding fragments ...

But before Darwin published his groundbreaking work in 1859, other scientists were already trying to explain the diversity of life on Earth. One such scientist was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a French ...

How a folding of time into gesture and process combine in paintings that wrestle with the disjunction between reality and ...

Whether you are planning a family getaway or a romantic break, you have plenty of Hill Country cabins to choose from, but let ...

Auroras occur in an upper layer of Earth’s atmosphere called the ionosphere, but they typically originate with activity on ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

A 2010 satellite image shows dozens of golden islands covered with strange parallel lines shining among the shallow waters of a massive, half-full ephemeral lake in Australia's Great Sandy Desert.

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ... Unconformities occur when a ...

If you didn't know, Jupiter has no solid ground – no surface, like the grass or dirt you tread here on Earth. Let's explain ...