Hundreds of earthquakes are detected at or near Mount Rainier each year, though typical swarms are smaller than what started ...

Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

Fantastic Four #1 sends Marvel's First Family on a time-traveling adventure when Doom's scheme goes wrong, scattering them ...

In northern Quebec, an exceptional geological formation spans across time. Researchers have just confirmed that these stones, ...

It draws from a geological time capsule of fossil reef cores, extracted from the seabed under the Great Barrier Reef.

Geologists have added a new period to their official calendar of Earth's history - the first in 120 years. The Ediacaran Period covers some 50 million years of ancient time on our planet from 600 ...

The geologic time scale is divided into eons, eras, periods, epochs, and ages. Our activities, and the time scale for download above, focus primarily on two of those divisions most relevant for an ...

Geologists say this period deserves an official start date, but they still need to figure out how and where to define it. The question has been on their minds for a long time, longer than the ...

The current lunar geological division, the Copernican Period, dates back to more than a billion years ago. By contrast, Earth has passed through around 15 geological periods during this time.

This gave rise to the “geologic time scale”, a dating system based on rock and fossil formations. From largest to smallest, these chapters are called eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages.

The Manhattan Project ushered in not only the nuclear age but the Anthropocene, the epoch in geological time that denotes humans' transformation of the Earth's chemistry, climate and biodiversity.