New research reveals how rock strength plays a crucial role in erosion, shaping landscapes over millions of years.

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to dominate the planet. All this happened about 4.5 billion years after Earth ...

Studying Snowball Earth offers a window into our planet’s past, but it also presents valuable ... than explained,” Shields said. “Dramatic landscape change causing the emergence of ...

As massive glaciers scratched and scarred Earth’s rocky surface, they freed less-common minerals, which were later flushed ...

Billions of years ago, the fourth planet from the sun could have been mistaken for Earth’s smaller twin ... revealed Mars as a dynamic, windblown landscape that could—just maybe—harbor ...

By chemically analyzing crystals in ancient rocks, the researchers discovered that as glaciers carved through the landscape ... showing how past shifts in Earth's climate triggered large-scale ...