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When you watch the video below, don't get distracted by the cracking concrete or the metal gate rocking back and forth. Keep your eyes focused on the right side of the screen, where you will see an ...
Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...
How can artificial intelligence (AI) be used to advance mapping and imaging methods on other planets? This is what a study presented at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference hopes to address ...
The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North ...
“Our research suggests that a giant hot blob of rock from the core-mantle boundary is present beneath East Africa, it is driving the plates apart and propping up the Africa continent so it is hundreds ...
By analyzing how far material ejected from an impact crater flies, scientists can locate buried glaciers and other interesting subsurface features.
Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering surface than previously ...
Paul Wilcox, a geologist at the University of Innsbruck, has discovered the first land-based evidence of meltwater pulses ...
A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...
The finding could explain the long-running mystery of why the surfaces of the lunar near and far sides are so different.
Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.
Lydia Fox, Chair of the GSAF Board of Trustees, emphasizes the generosity of the geoscience community: "This record-setting level of support was made possible by our incredible donors. Their ...