Many researchers didn’t think it was possible for continental rock to form so early, but evidence of some unusual geology keeps building up.

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

Before he became the calm, bearded icon of science, Charles Darwin was a miserable, seasick 22-year-old just trying ...

The name alone should give you a hint of what’s in store – Kodachrome, borrowed from the famous color film, because when National Geographic photographers first laid eyes on this landscape in 1948, ...

Big-name destinations that truly deliver—plus low-stress routines to beat crowds. 13 icons from Paris and Rome to Petra, ...

Tucked away in the northern Black Hills lies a natural masterpiece so stunning it seems plucked from a fantasy novel – Spearfish Canyon Nature Area in Lead, South Dakota. This limestone gorge with its ...

Fossils dating back 773,000 years from Thomas Quarry I in Morocco shed new light on the shared ancestry of Homo sapiens, Neandertals, and Denisovans. An international team of researchers has ...

HAWAII VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK — When Scott and Pamela Rippel found out scientists were predicting a fountain of lava would erupt in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on Jan. 24, they extended their ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

Landslides closed Highway 1 for three years. No one expects this will be the end of its battle with the forces of nature.

Bright white rocks spotted by NASA’s Perseverance rover are rewriting what we thought we knew about ancient Mars. These ...

Jan. 3 (UPI) --A magnitude 6.5 earthquake was recorded at 7:58 a.m. local time near Rancho Viejo. Mexico on Friday morning and shook buildings in the resort city of Acapulco along the Pacific Coast.