Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

Will the pole shift actually happen? Discover more about Earth’s magnetic poles and how they’ve shifted in the past.

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Every community has a tourist attraction everyone knows about but locals never visit. Perhaps it's because it's always there and can be seen anytime. And yet "anytime" often ends up translating to ...

An ancient Skiri Pawnee star map on elk skin reopens the debate about its true function and challenges Western interpretations.

Noida is the first Indian city to roll out real-time speed limits on Google Maps, aiming to halve overspeeding accidents ...

Northern Lights may dazzle again tonight as a severe geomagnetic storm reaches peak intensity across regions. Follow live.

A Washington Post investigation shows why much of the eastern U.S. is increasingly vulnerable to extreme rain and floods.