"These hydrologic oddities illustrate how much we have still to learn about Earth's dynamic surface," researchers said in a ...

Chen Yi from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences has dated the formation of the basin to 4.25 billion years ago by analyzing the first-ever rock samples ...

As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of the last glacial period some 10,000 years ago, it left behind the planet’s ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) assessed that there are technically recoverable resources of 61 MMbbl of oil and 240 bcf of ...