A decade after the release of "The Martian" and a decade out from the world it envisions, how close is reality to fiction?

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

A group of fossils of elasmosaurs—some of the most famous in North America—have just been formally identified as belonging to ...

Japanese geologists have linked ancient amber layers on the seafloor to a massive landslide-triggered tsunami during the age ...

Figuring out anything from 115 million years ago is a challenge. But realizing that a tsunami happened is even more ...

Geologists recently dated the age of Watersmeet gneiss, a type of rock in the Upper Peninsula, as the oldest in the U.S. Here ...

I hope your readers noted that 3 of the 4 front-page stories in the May 15th edition of the Times West Virginian were connected.

Researchers warn that current land management models don't account for accelerated, human-driven rock formation processes.

Also, all the obtained H/V curves fulfilled the SESAME guide ... The soil-sedimentary cover (sediments/sedimentary rocks) boundary was not distinguished in the HVSR transects processed at depth (Fig.

Sedimentary rocks with slag are relatively more abundant ... Man-made mass now outweighs all living biomass on Earth: study The researchers used four different analytical techniques to understand ...