Ask people how Stonehenge was built and you’ll hear stories of sledges, ropes, boats and sheer human determination to haul stones from across Britain to Salisbury Plain, in south-west England. Others ...

A new study shows the monument’s most exotic stones did not arrive by chance but were instead deliberately selected and transported.

First, dinosaur tracks aged around 140 million years were reported in 2025 on a remote stretch of the coast in South Africa’s ...

Situated in north-eastern South Africa, the Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains comprises 40% of the Barberton Greenstone Belt, one of the world’s oldest geological structures. The property represents the ...

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...

Parts of ancient Earth may have formed continents and recycled crust through subduction far earlier than previously thought.

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

Two groundbreaking dinosaur track discoveries are changing the outdated image of the Jurassic period ...

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...

A rock legend and a rap icon are teaming up to form a “dope” new group. The Doors drummer John Densmore and Public Enemy rapper Chuck D announced Wednesday that they’ve recorded new music together as ...

Mineralogy is the study of minerals, the building blocks of rocks, which are naturally-occurring, crystalline solids with a set chemical make-up. This includes the study of the chemical composition ...

In a spectacular landscape, entirely sculpted by erosion, the Göreme valley and its surroundings contain rock-hewn sanctuaries that provide unique evidence of Byzantine art in the post-Iconoclastic ...