Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

A startup building massive, bullet-shaped helium balloons that float in the stratosphere has raised $15 million from Japan’s ...

The epicenter zone used by the current model is based on a geologic time scale that involves historical plate movements and geological phenomena that occurred before humans were on the earth.

"Despite its rejection as a formal unit of the Geologic Time Scale, Anthropocene will nevertheless continue to be used not only by Earth and environmental scientists, but also by social scientists ...

So much so, in fact, that it has become widely accepted that the Anthropocene – the geological epoch dominated by human activity – is already set in stone on the geological time scale ...

But to merit inclusion on the geological scale, any time interval needs to meet certain criteria, such as having a clear, objective starting point in the mineral record.

The Geologic Time Scale-- all 4.56 billion years of it -- is the way Earth scientists converse about time. It started off based on the relative occurrence of fossils and the periods were named after ...

The proposal to add an Anthropocene Epoch to the geological time scale was rejected for a variety of reasons, none of them related to the fact that human societies are changing this planet. In ...

For the past two decades, geologists have wrestled with whether humans have changed the planet enough to kick off a completely new epoch in geological time called the Anthropocene. Now, a ...

Currently, we’re in the Holocene epoch of the geological time scale, which started about 11,700 years ago. However, ...

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.