What are some events that all of us have had in our lives? Ask the class "What are some events that all of us have had in our lives?" Make a list of 5 or 6 things on the board. Let’s organize these!

For the first time since 1891, the geologic timescale is getting a new period. In March the International Union of Geological Scientists added the Ediacaran Period to the Precambrian Eon, an enormous ...

Images from NASA’s Dawn Mission have been used to create a series of high-resolution geological maps of the large asteroid Vesta, revealing the variety of surface features in unprecedented detail.