NASA’s Curiosity rover investigates boxwork rock formations on Mount Sharp to gather evidence of ancient groundwater on Mars.

A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues the simplest answer may work: contact binaries like Arrokoth can form directly during the gravitational collapse of a dense ...

Capturing and storing carbon dioxide will be critical to avoiding the worst impacts of ...

New research published in the Geological Society of America Bulletin reveals how  fluids naturally carbonate ultramafic rocks formed within Oman’s Samail Ophiolite, providing new insight into tectonic ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system that challenges long-standing theories of how planets form. Across our galaxy, astronomers routinely observe a ...

A team of researchers has initiated a deep drilling project underneath a mountain in ...

Today, CO₂ is permanently stored beneath the seabed. So far, however, little attention has been given to the possibility of ...

This new series of photographs captures the vastness of Earth in ancient rock formations, natural weathering, tiny crystals, coastlines and gems of amber. But it’s also about the traces of family ...

Spiderweb-shaped rock patterns on Mars may rewrite the timeline of when water disappeared from the Red Planet.

Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

WILLCOX, AZ — Rising from the high desert of southeastern Arizona, Chiricahua National Monument offers some of the state’s most striking and lesser-known natural scenery. The park is known for its ...

Meteorite found in Finland reveals unprecedented phosphorus levels, one of the rarest in the solar system today ...