Here on Earth, geologists seek out deep channels into Earth's rock, carved over the ages by flowing water. The exposed…
Northern Canada has been keeping a secret from the rest of the world. It's home to "Resurrection," a tectonic plate…
Scientists are getting better at understanding exoplanets. We now know that they're plentiful, and that they can even orbit dead…
It takes oxygen to make iron rust. So when scientists discovered hematite spread widely through lunar high latitudes, they were…
Ganymede's surface is a bit of a puzzle for planetary scientists. About two-thirds of its surface is covered in lighter…
We all know what water is. And what rock is. The difference is crystal clear. Well, here on Earth it…
The Moon is easily the most well-studied object in the Solar System, (other than Earth, of course.) But it still…
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The USGS' Astrogeology Science Center has released a complete mineral map of the Moon, which the lunar mining crowd is…
Evidence from an ancient section of the Earth's crust suggest that Earth was once a water-world, some three billion years…