Researchers may have found a missing link in how Earth's mantle gets wet: newly discovered iron minerals that can store water at the extremely high temperatures and pressures present near our planet's ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Pliny the Younger watched Mount Vesuvius erupt across the Bay of Naples, destroying the Roman cities ...

(James St. John/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0) Imagine picking up a black stone from an old riverbed in Brazil. Its surface shines like glass, but inside it is riddled with tiny holes. Break it open ...

Explore Golden’s free earth science museum, packed with moon rocks, Colorado minerals, fossils, and sparkling gems.

In a new study, researchers measured subtle variations in iron, titanium, and chromium isotopes in Bennu grains. Their ...

Mount Vesuvius’ famous 79 CE eruption has given scientists a remarkably precise benchmark for dating events deep in Earth’s past. The improved technique could sharpen the timelines of volcanic ...

Of the two ends where the Indian subcontinent collided with the Eurasian continent, the east is Luobusa, which I covered in ...

Ishaan Dokania, a sixth-grader from Oregon, is exploring lithium resource identification using satellite imagery and machine ...

An aerial view of the Kutuk River in Alaska's Gates of the Arctic National Park. (Ken Hill/National Park Service) Over the ...

Police are considering charges against Greenpeace protesters who occupied a state-owned ship in protest at seabed mining.

Since 2021, NASA 's Perseverance rover has explored Jezero crater, a 28-mile-wide basin on Mars where rivers once fed a lake.

One can view a stone merely as a hard substance. However, if you shift your perspective slightly, the stone suddenly appears ...