The iconic tourist destination provides a beautiful view, but also represents a physical record of Earth's climate history ...

A team of scientists has succeeded in bringing to the surface a long, 1,268-meter section of rocks from the Earth's Mantle.

The landscape around Troy does not immediately suggest a single ancient city preserved in isolation. The ground rises gradually at Hisarlık, a mound s.

Even as temperatures rise on Earth's surface and in the lower atmosphere, the planet's upper atmosphere has cooled dramatically. This paradoxical pattern is a well-known sign of humanity's climate ...

Find the answer for Earth's outermost layer from the people who brought you the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

A gradual dimming and brightening when a star passed behind it suggested the mini-Pluto was wrapped in a thin layer of air.

Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...

Researchers at the University of Melbourne have, for the first time, explained how Australia’s famous Twelve Apostles came to ...

Ancient volcanoes in the Arctic may have trapped Earth in repeated "Snowball Earth" freezes for 56 million years.

The limestone at the Twelve Apostles does not sit flat. Look closely at the cliffs along Victoria’s coast and the layers lean a little, broken here and there by small faults, the kind of details most ...

When atmospheric chemists Paul Crutzen and John Birks added smoke into their computer models of nuclear war scenarios, they ...