So the magnetic north pole is drifting away from Canada toward Russia. This continued in the year just passed, and the newest ...

The natural world is full of striking landscapes that remind us of the immense power of time and geology. From water carving ...

Young Earth was a blue planet covered in oceans, much like today. But the atmosphere was a lethal cocktail of gases, with no ...

Mars has never looked more like a planet built for hiding secrets. A cluster of eight vast, water-carved caves appears almost engineered to shield fragile chemistry, or even biology, from the brutal ...

That’s the Paint Mines Interpretive Park in Calhan, Colorado. Nature’s sculpture garden stands proudly against Colorado’s blue sky, showcasing formations that look like they were designed by a ...

In comparison, he writes, the 300,000 years since Homo sapiens evolved is so brief that “in a single stroke with a medium-grained nail file you could eradicate human history.” In this special issue on ...