Still, the fancy persists, implanted like a microchip, ever since Erich von Däniken’s 1968 best-seller, “Chariots of the Gods ...

In his “Island at the Edge of the World,” the British archaeologist Mike Pitts delves into the misconceptions and legends ...

Ancient humans weren't always at peace with their environments—misconceptions say that prehistoric civilizations left their world “pristine and untouched," but that isn't entirely true. This episode ...

Have you ever wondered how we got here on Earth, and how it all began? From the Archean Eon to the Holocene Epoch, some ...

For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This coincided with the Late Heavy Bombardment (ca. 4.1 to 3.8 billion years ago), a ...

A 66 million-year-old mystery behind how our planet transformed from a tropical greenhouse to the ice-capped world of today has been unraveled by scientists. Their new study has revealed that Earth's ...

As for the statues long assumed to have been abandoned as they were being transported to the coastline to be displayed in ...

The Museum of the Earth in Ithaca has avoided a looming foreclosure after its parent organization, the Ithaca-based ...

Is Greenland a land of rare earth riches? The Indicator tells the story of an Australian geologist who learned the great cost of extracting Greenland's minerals.