I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

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The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

Massive Mars meteoroid strike that set off 'marsquake' helps NASA understand Red Planet's crust and core - NASA researchers ...

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how the continents were formed.

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

An accumulation of weak to moderate earthquakes has been recorded around the Greek island of Santorini since 24 January. The ...

By Becky Nelson I have been a rockhound since I was old enough to pick up a pretty rock. My kitchen sink-shelf has several “beauties” that I have picked up on walks and at work, and I enjoy looking at ...