Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn tens of thousands of years ago by ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. Ancient Scottish rocks are being probed to help answer the question of whether there was ever life on Mars. A University of St Andrews ...

Scientists have discovered DNA’s building blocks inside ancient meteorites, suggesting that life’s origins may be extraterrestrial. These space rocks, which landed on Earth billions of years ...

Buried below the earth in ancient rock, scientists based in Australia have discovered evidence of an event that disrupted the trajectory of life on Earth. The Curtin University-led team believe ...

Bishop and Lane suggest underground water could have formed clays and carbonates billions of years ago – either through subsurface reactions with rocks or precipitation from saturated pore waters.

A video shows two men damaging an ancient rock formation at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada, rangers say. Screengrab from KVVU video A jury found two men guilty of destroying delicate ...

Rocks carried from Greenland to Iceland by icebergs add to evidence that the climate in Europe got a lot colder for a century or two starting around AD 540 – a “mini ice age” that may have ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a rock tomb in the courtyard of a house in the Şanlıurfa province in southeastern Turkey, a discovery that officials say sheds new light on the region’s ancient ...

Pikes Peak, originally named Tavá Kaa-vi by the Ute people, lends its ancestral name, Tava, to these notable rocks. They are composed ... from “cold birth” in ancient Greek and is synonymous ...

The space agency concluded the 18-inch-wide and 14-inch-tall rock, the first of its kind to ... "While the Mars2020 team is itching to reach the ancient statigraphy exposed in the crater rim ...