For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too ...

Researchers from the University of Oxford have uncovered evidence that Mars once hosted enormous, Earth-like magmatic systems ...

An artist's render of Mars. (Kevin M. Gill/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) For decades, our picture of Mars was of a dead desert world. Its ...

A study led by geoscientists at the University of Sydney has revealed why some ancient continental edges became fertile sites ...

Since the early 1980s, Earth scientists have understood that erosion and weathering of rock slowly removes CO 2 from the ...

Researchers at Brown have shown the first direct evidence for a massive geologic uplift of the entire Aleutian Island ...

The earth's surface is made up of two types of crust: A lot of volcanic activity occurs in the 'ring of fire'. The 'ring of fire' is a group of volcanoes that are located along the plate margin of the ...

That makes North Pole Dome the oldest known impact structure on Earth, and the only recognised impact crater from the Archean ...

Since last Wednesday, the world has seen an increase in seismic activity — seven in five days. First, there were the powerful ...

Doublet earthquakes are rare. There is a 5% chance of having two large quakes in a sequence be within 0.2 units of magnitude, ...

Soar over Þingvellir National Park, a place of extraordinary geological wonder and profound historical gravity located in ...

The mission will be carried out by US startup Katalyst Space Technologies, which won the Nasa contract last September. Its ...