But what really motivates Mr Trump’s lunge for Arctic land is Greenland’s “rare earths”—a category of materials vital to ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

The Maze District of Canyonlands National Park is around 30-square miles of rugged, remote red-rock canyon, twisted into a ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

The known sequence of Maunaloa’s 1868 events began with an eruptive phase beginning at about dawn March 27 at the summit, lasting a couple of hours. Seismicity escalated thereafter, with Kaʻū ...

Underneath Antarctica’s endless sheets of ice lies a hidden world of deep valleys, towering peaks, and sprawling plains. For ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

Most other dots are orange or green. The Madison River gauge near West Yellowstone read 356 cubic feet per second on March 21 ...

TEWKSBURY - A minor earth tremor was reported in the township this morning not far from the epicenter of the 4.8 magnitude ...

The state of Alaska requested the name change in 1975, but the Board on Geographic Names didn’t take action. Members of the Ohio congressional delegation – President William McKinley was from Ohio – ...

A pair of earthquakes were reported early Thursday, both epicentered just outside Borrego Springs. Sent at 8 a.m. every day ...