For most of human history, the story of cosmic catastrophe has been told in craters: scars like Chicxulub that mark where asteroids slammed into the planet and rewrote the rules of life. A growing ...

Our planet’s magnetosphere has seen dramatic shifts across its history—even total reversals—but this recent wrinkle doesn’t ...

Priceless rock extracted from Scotland's legendary Great Glen Fault could help answer 'fundamental questions about the ...

Welcome to Makoshika State Park in Glendive, Montana – the state’s largest state park that somehow remains its best-kept secret. The word “Makoshika” (pronounced muh-KO-shi-kuh) comes from Lakota, ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

Stunning concentric rings in Libya's Sahara Desert, Jabal Arkanū, were formed by ancient volcanic activity and millions of ...

Every market has its peculiarities. Investors who are unaware of them, or even aware but choose to ignore them, inevitably ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State Professor Renée M. Clary is the 2025 recipient of the Geological Society of America’s ...

Scientists found the first natural proof that underwater volcanoes make ammonia without biology, a reaction that may have ...

When we think of coral reefs, we picture bright fish, clear water and colourful corals. But reefs have also shaped the planet ...

Rocks that stood out as light-colored dots on the reddish-orange surface of Mars now are the latest evidence that areas of the small planet may have once supported wet oases with humid climates and ...