ROME (AP) — Italy’s Ventina glacier, one of the biggest in northern Lombardy, has melted so much due to climate change that geologists can no longer measure it the way they have for the past 130 years ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion years ago, before a colossal collision irreversibly altered the primitive ...

Beneath Yellowstone National Park lies a complex and extensive volcanic system. More geological changes are occurring at Yellowstone National Park, as another hole forms in one of the park's basins.

The field’s governing body ratified a vote by scientists on the contentious issue, ending a long effort to update the timeline of Earth’s history. By Raymond Zhong The highest governing body in ...

Geologists recently discovered the fossil of a Cretaceous-era mosasaur vertebra near Starkville, Mississippi. The experts believe the apex predator of the ancient seas could have weighed 20,000 pounds ...

If you see a small plane flying low over your community in the next few months, it just might be the U.S. Geological Survey doing some long-overdue mapping. Specific to Connecticut, this aerial ...

In a remote part of Western Australia, geologists have uncovered a mineral deposit of staggering size—one that promises to rewrite not only the map of global iron production but also our understanding ...