When astronomers announced Kepler-452b, they were not just adding another distant world to a growing catalog. They were ...

A colossal asteroid-like invader once ripped through the lunar crust, flinging out rings of mountains and scooping out a ...

Is Greenland a land of rare earth riches? The Indicator tells the story of an Australian geologist who learned the great cost ...

Evidence from fossil shells suggests that falling seawater calcium helped lock away carbon dioxide and helped cool Earth after the dinosaurs.

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

The Chocolate Hills are a formation made of 1,776 limestone, grass-covered mounds in the Philippines. This landscape is lush ...

Geologists have uncovered the world’s largest iron ore deposit in Australia’s Pilbara region, valued at nearly Rs 500 trillion, with the potential to reshape global trade.

Learn how the emergence of new plankton species started life's swift recovery after the asteroid impact that killed most ...

We are deeply saddened to confirm the death of Kirk Handley, a long-standing and highly valued member of staff at the School ...

The asteroid that struck the Earth 66 million years ago devastated life across the planet, wiping out the dinosaurs and other organisms in a hail of fire and catastrophic climate change. But new ...

Sixty-six million years ago, the dinosaurs had a really bad day when a colossal asteroid impact spurred their extinction. But ...

In a new study in Geology, researchers calculated how long it took for novel single-celled marine species to appear after the asteroid impact, and it’s surprisingly fast.