Every termite mound holds roughly 65 cubic yards of packed clay. The total displaced soil rivals about ...

A fiery mystery has puzzled geologists for decades: where did the lava fueling one of Earth’s largest volcanic events come ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

We may associate the oldest artefacts with structures such as Egypt’s Great Pyramid, but some of the very oldest items on Earth are barely visible to the naked eye. One example is a carbonaceous ...

That timeline, if proven accurate, would date it thousands of years earlier than Egypt’s pyramids or England’s Stonehenge — and possibly make it the oldest known structure ever built by humans.