Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...

All around the world, from the Red Sea to the deep ocean ridges of the Atlantic, lurk more than a dozen geological misfits.

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

The continent-sized blobs are much hotter than the lower mantle, creating a significant temperature gradient in the rocky ...

The findings come in the background of data obtained by NASA’s Perseverance rover that revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks, altered by subsurface water in a Martian crater that ...

Something strange is up with Australia. And for once, it isn’t to do with their wildlife or men’s haircuts. A new geophysical ...

A rough diamond unearthed in Botswana in the final quarter of 2025 has drawn sustained attention from geoscientists and ...

A new study offers a look at how the building blocks of life might ...

A new study led by Prof. Xiao Wenjiao from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and ...