It started with a rock that didn’t look like a big deal. Just a dark lump in the Sahara. The kind of thing you could walk ...
A study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters challenges a widely held assumption about the thermal state of Earth ...
An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model. Geologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how the ...
Venus — a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes — may be even more geologically active near its surface than previously thought. New calculations by researchers at Washington ...
Scientists have produced the first global map and analysis of small mare ridges (SMRs) on the moon, a characteristic ...
When the supercontinent Pangea began to fragment around 200 million years ago during the Early Jurassic, it reshaped the face of the planet. Vast new oceans opened, continents drifted apart and the ...