Antarctica's glaciers were changing long before satellites, weather stations or cameras captured their transformations, and ...

A rock formation spanning Ireland and Scotland may be the world's most complete record of "snowball Earth," a crucial moment in planetary history when the globe was covered in ice, finds a new study ...

A striking patch of bright rock in southern Madagascar has an unexpected connection to the Moon. Surrounded by rocks that ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery about the formation of rock. It seems that industrial waste known as slag that is generated by the steel industry can turn into new, solid rock within about ...

Four and a half billion years ago Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of small rocky and icy bodies similar to modern asteroids and comets, ...