Scientists have long wondered how Earth’s continents first formed. Now, a team of geologists from the University of Hong Kong ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

What if Venus became Earth's moon? Explore how our planet would change if Earth’s twin, a planet almost the same size and ...

A new study has found thick layers of clay found on Mars could have provided the required mix of water, minerals and a calm environment for life to develop. Scientists from The University of Texas at ...

A salty surge in the Southern Ocean is melting Antarctic sea ice from below — and causing dramatic changes scientists didn’t ...

Most meteorites that have reached Earth come from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But we have 1,000 or so ...

Essentially, gas pistoning is a shallow, degassing-driven rise and fall of a lava surface. Often these pistons occur in ...

An ichthyosaur preserved beneath a Chilean glacier is helping scientists understand the extinct animals and the world around them as a supercontinent broke up.

Nestled in the heart of Gainesville sits a natural wonder so unexpected, so beautifully bizarre, that it feels like stepping into another dimension – Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park, where ...

Several factors, both meteorological and geographical, created a nightmare recipe for flash flooding across the Texas Hill ...

Essentially, gas pistoning is a shallow, degassing-driven rise and fall of a lava surface. Often these pistons occur in ...

Big Hill Pond State Park sprawls across 4,138 acres of southwestern Tennessee’s Hardeman County like nature’s answer to the ...