Geologists love fieldwork. They love getting their specialized hammers and chisels into seams in the rock, exposing unweathered surfaces and…
Like Earth, Mars has experienced periods of extreme glaciation or ice sheet coverage, which are known as ice ages. As…
The ultra-powerful James Webb Space Telescope will launch soon. Once it's deployed, and in position at the Earth-Sun Lagrange Point…
At a fundamental level, Mars is a volcanic planet. Its surface is home to the Solar System's largest extinct volcano,…
Here on Earth, geologists seek out deep channels into Earth's rock, carved over the ages by flowing water. The exposed…
How did life arise on Earth? How did it survive the Hadean eon, a time when repeated massive impacts excavated…
According to new study by a team from UC Santa Cruz, the right amount of radioactive elements could also be…
Every 200,000 to 300,000 years Earth's magnetic poles reverse. What was once the north pole becomes the south, and vice…
Northern Canada has been keeping a secret from the rest of the world. It's home to "Resurrection," a tectonic plate…
A new study shows that some of the oldest surface features on Venus (tesserae) were likely formed by volcanic activity