Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

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Check out these top climbing spots around the world. As a global hub for climbers, Yosemite (below) has to be on the list. It ...

With more Dark Sky Places than anywhere else in the world, Utah’s high deserts are giving visitors front-row seats to the ...

Big Bend Ranch State Park in Terlingua stands as Texas’ largest state park, a 311,000-acre haven of rugged wilderness that ...

There’s a moment when you’re cruising along Highway 14 in the Eastern California desert, radio fading in and out, wondering if civilization has forgotten you—then suddenly the landscape transforms so ...

A new dinosaur species unearthed from the famed Morrison Formation in Colorado has been identified, according to a journal ...

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

By confirming the age of these rocks, and that they might just be the oldest rocks on Earth, we’re finally opening the door ...

The gold standard for determining the age of ancient rocks is measuring the radioactive decay of isotopes of uranium into lead in minerals known as zircons. But not all rocks contain zircons, so ...

Rock formations called “hoodoos” fill the Bisti De-Na-Zin Wilderness in northern New Mexico. The desert area is rich with fossils from dinosaurs and animals that lived here in ancient times.