Federal cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey have prompted fears of losing vital information on earthquake activity and ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

The Perseverance rover on Mars is set to begin its newest challenge: a slog up the rim of the Jezero Crater that will take months to complete. The rover will face steep slopes and difficult terrain, ...

Scientists with NASA’s Perseverance rover are exploring what they consider a veritable Martian cornucopia full of intriguing rocky outcrops on the rim of Jezero Crater. Studying rocks, boulders, and ...

Some of the unusual rocks carry stories about water on Mars. One has hints of long-gone microbes. All tell of a dynamic, complex planet.

Water-flux melting by mantle fluids played a key role in forming the sodic felsic crust that built Precambrian rocks in the Georgetown Inlier-Australia, according to geochronology and oxygen ...

Two new species of fish were discovered in tributaries of the Black Warrior River System in Alabama, according to a study. Photo from Bernie Kuhajda A collection of colorful fish that are crimson ...

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the planetary interior. There, blobs of molten rock are coalescing in the upper mantle ...

The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the planet’s magma creates continents – and may have even helped create life. In a new paper published in Nature today, colleagues and I reveal ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.