In Earth’s early days, more than 4 billion years ago, the surface was a dangerous and unpredictable place. Violent volcanoes, ...

When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would ...

NASA’s Perseverance has found Mars rocks with unusual nodules and organic material that may represent ancient microbial ...

Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.

Discover the countries with the most active volcanoes in the world, including Indonesia, Japan, Chile, Russia, and the United ...

Four billion years ago, the surface of the Earth was a battleground of chaos lava flows, meteorite impact, and tectonic writhing constantly destroyed new skin of the planet. But in all this geologic ...

For decades, scientists have grappled with a profound question known as the Fermi Paradox: if the galaxy is teeming with the ...

By one completely unscientific measure, Eater has put at least 160,000 restaurants on its maps in the past 20 years. All of ...

Conditions in mountain ranges outperform rift basins: colder temperatures and ample water circulation along faults allow ...

The combination of plate motion and intraplate stress with a high-resolution, plate-boundary-resolving, global convection model has made it possible to holistically evaluate plate driving forces and ...