Digital rendering of the Atahensik corona on Venus and the Dali Chasma rift system—based on radar data from the Magellan ...

The Pacific Ocean is the largest feature on Earth's surface. It is also, geologically speaking, slowly disappearing.Scientists say the vast ocean basin is shrin ...

There is a particular kind of quiet that settles over an astronomer's control room after a long night of listening to the sky ...

Venus is generally described as a geologically frozen planet. However, the shape of several large valleys shows that tectonic ...

During the Apollo 14 mission, commander Alan Shepard famously struck two golf balls on the Moon, using a specially designed ...

New sediment-provenance data date the closure of the southern Neotethys and the Arabia–Eastern Anatolia collision to 74–71 ...

Paleogeography is the scientific study and reconstruction of past geographic configurations of Earth’s surface, including the distribution of continents, oceans, mountain ranges, basins, and ...

A free web tool helps map the location of fossils as Earth's shifting continents changed position over ancient time.

Volcanology is the study of the generation and movement of molten rock on Earth and other planetary bodies, primarily through volcanoes and volcanic eruptions. This encompasses the generation of magma ...

June 28, 2026 Hawaii researchers are giving old fishing nets and recycled plastic a second life by mixing them into asphalt roads. Early tests found these roads didn't release more plastic particles ...