The discovery of a new lifeform within Earth’s crust has sent ripples through the scientific community, challenging our ...

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

Somewhere between Google Earth glitches and ancient prophecy, a new kind of internet mystery has taken hold. It doesn’t come ...

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Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Nevada is becoming a major producer of lithium, thanks to topography, climate, and geologic serendipity. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Discover how scientists found and dated the oldest rocks on the planet, and why studying them can help explain how life on ...

You would have a hard time finding these common Earth rocks on our neighboring planets. Here’s what makes our landscapes so unique. Limestone landscapes, like this one in the Stone Forest in ...

From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on Earth with such strength and permanence since the 1950s, that a special team of scientists says a new geologic … ...

Strange waves rippled around the world, and nobody knows why. Instruments picked up the seismic waves more than 10,000 miles away—but bizarrely, nobody felt them.

The Cambrian explosion was an extraordinary phenomenon in the evolution of life on the planet that led to the emergence of ...

Therefore, Earth's journey around the Galactic Center helps shape the planet's geology, the team concluded. Earth's journey around the Galactic Center .