A rock shelter discovered in the southern Sinai Desert contains designs and inscriptions spanning a period of 10,000 years, ...

For decades, the fossils found in the Pilbara region of Western Australia were the subject of heated debate. Were they truly evidence of life, or just odd rock formations? Now, scientists have ...

These Pennsylvania rocks conceal an ancient maze you can walk through, making it a unique destination for adventure seekers.

Now, a study of the rocks from the Australian Outback by Tusch, Münker and their co-authors, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has captured “a snapshot” of the advent of ...

People planning a Pacific Northwest road trip to view ancient art know that many of the oldest, most fascinating works are ...

Scientists at MIT have found compelling chemical evidence that Earth’s earliest animals were likely ancient sea sponges.

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust ...

Sixty-million-year-old rock samples from deep under the ocean have revealed how huge amounts of carbon dioxide are stored for millennia in piles of lava rubble that accumulate on the seafloor.

Scientists discovered that wrinkled rocks in Morocco were formed by deep sea microbes that survived without sunlight.

The discovery of the molecules was made with Nasa’s Curiosity rover, which examined a Martian rock named Cumberland. This is ...

Long ago, when Romans wanted to build a new temple, they would head to the nearby quarries of Tivoli, chisel out blocks of porous rock called lapis tiburtinus — now known as ...