Deep beneath the red soils of Western Australia, an ancient secret lay locked in stone. And through the stubborn durability ...

Rare earth elements are tiny yet essential parts of many of the technologies you use every day. New techniques are making ...

Every time you use your phone, open your computer or listen to your favorite music on AirPods, you are relying on critical ...

Half a century later, that ultra-deep mindset is being repurposed for something more practical: harvesting Earth’s heat as a ...

Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary bodies, and the local and regional processes that created that rock geometry ... the Earth’s crust and lithosphere.

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone ...

Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to ...

A whole population of 'minimoons' - tiny natural satellites - may be quietly circling near Earth, scientists now believe, after discovering a second Moon-origin rock drifting close to our planet.

NASA's Curiosity rover has uncovered evidence of a past carbon cycle on Mars. This breakthrough provides scientists ... on Mars might also inform CO2 sequestration strategies on Earth. Ben Tutolo, ...

Tibetan uplift was mainly caused by post-collisional mantle dynamics, not ongoing India-Asia convergence. The study ...