The Jinlin crater, measuring 900 meters across, formed during Earth’s current geological epoch. A recently identified and exceptionally well-preserved impact crater is offering scientists new insight ...

Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time.

Researchers from Shanghai and Guangzhou, China have discovered an impact crater. It sits on the side of a hill in Zhaoqing, ...

An unusually intense toxic algae bloom was spotted from space in Nevada’s Pyramid Lake, swirling like paint in a satellite ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star’s habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a ...

Tucked away in western Maine’s magnificent Mahoosuc Range, Grafton Notch State Park spans 3,129 acres of wilderness that would make even the most jaded traveler stop mid-trail and gasp. It’s the kind ...

Just come prepared for serious winter conditions—this is Maine in January, not a light dusting in Seattle. Spring brings renewal as the forest shakes off winter’s grip. Wildflowers carpet the forest ...

The shattering of Nuna may have built the perfect environment for life to evolve From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Here a group known as the Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) built a deep geological repository to contain spent ...

The Open Space and Recreation Working Group hosted a hike through Willis Woods to a glacial erratic, one of many large boulders deposited across North America by retreating glaciers at the end of the ...