Earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, shifting tectonic plates—these are all signs that our planet is alive. But what is revealed ...

Researchers reveal a dynamic geologic past for Antarctica’s Transantarctic Mountains, uncovering ancient mountain-building ...

Hailstones have been said to bounce up and down through clouds as they grow. A new study found that many stones take much simpler paths.

The movement of unique landforms called “rock glaciers” give insight into how climate change is impacting permafrost in mountainous regions.

The story involves an inland sea, powerful rivers, the shearing of the Earth’s crust along major fault systems, magmatic ...

Envisioned by Johnson as a one-man country-psych studio project to offer some respite from the guitarist’s tireless touring as part of San Francisco’s garage-psych primitivists Wooden Shjips and the ...

They eventually managed to place the APXS equipment on top of a prominent rock to study its target Martian area, including layered rocks named “Hale Telescope” after the famous astronomical ...

A new process could enable crushed rocks to capture carbon dioxide from the air much more quickly, turbocharging a carbon removal technique that is already being widely adopted. Natural silicate ...

molten rock rises and falls, driving the movement of tectonic plates on our planet's surface — and for some time, researchers have debated whether the moon also has a molten layer of rock ...

Three major findings happened within the span of seven weeks. The Curiosity rover, which has been climbing a mountain of layered rock, literally stumbled upon pure sulfur, its wheels crushing the ...