For a long time, scientists assumed that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids and comets billions of years ago. This ...

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ...

The Chocolate Hills are 1,776 mounds on Bohol Island in the Philippines where grassy cover turns brown during the dry season.

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

In some of the driest parts of southern Africa, rock faces hold quiet records of much older worlds. Marble and limestone ...

Earth’s ice ages have long been blamed on subtle wobbles in our own orbit, but new research suggests a distant accomplice is ...

Is Greenland a land of rare earth riches? The Indicator tells the story of an Australian geologist who learned the great cost ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become ...

A new study shows the monument’s most exotic stones did not arrive by chance but were instead deliberately selected and ...

In a new study in Geology, researchers calculated how long it took for novel single-celled marine species to appear after the asteroid impact, and it’s surprisingly fast.

President Donald Trump’s desire to claim Greenland for the U.S. has thrust the island’s wealth of natural resources firmly ...