When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Not all discoveries are the work of scientists and explorers. Sometimes it's just a guy out in the woods looking for a bit of ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

After decades away from public viewing, the mysterious rock formation that gave the North Texas city its name could be put on ...

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Their legacy, imprinted in clay, now resurfaces from the depths, offering new insights into the spiritual and domestic lives ...

An early Holocene sea-level curve based on data from the North Sea reveals two phases of accelerated sea-level rise owing to meltwater from the North American and Antarctic ice sheets.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has unearthed the largest organic molecules ever detected on Mars—possible fragments of fatty ...

Sweet Spot covers 1,165 hectares of Lower and Middle Aldridge Formation rocks belonging to the Meso-Proterozoic Belt-Purcell Supergroup, an ancient basin sequence of sedimentary rocks known to ...

A clay figurine has spent millennia incomplete ... There may be at least four other similar, albeit smaller, rock formations in the same lake, showing the power of the springs that spew gas ...