For generations, school posters have sorted the Solar System into tidy boxes: four small rocky planets near the Sun, two huge gas planets farther out, and, at the edge, a pair of “ice giants” – Uranus ...

For decades, scientists have believed that Uranus and Neptune are “ice giants,” planets made mostly of icy materials like ...

Scientists in Missouri are actively pursuing dozens of minerals, including rare ones, that have been found across the state.

Abstract: Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence appears in the domain of goetechnics, underwater acoustics, tunneling, geomorphology engineering and also in several fields too. This paper focused on the ...

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the NCCR PlanetS is challenging our understanding of the solar system ...

Abstract: In the geological survey, the rock fracture and rock types in the field outcrop areas can provide critical information for the study of oil and gas transportation in the formation. This ...

The specimen containing Scoriaceous Lava collected during Darwin’s legendary voyage aboard H.M.S. Beagle (1831–1836) will be ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has spent years combing Jezero Crater for traces of ancient water and potential biosignatures, but its latest find is something far more alien to the local bedrock: a dark, ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

Asteroid: A chunk of rock left over from collisions in the early solar system. Comet: A ball of ice, rock, methane, and other compounds. Meteoroid: A piece of rock which burns up in the atmosphere.

Our writers' picks for the very best bands since rock became a permanent part of popular music. One thing is for sure every year around the time of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies — ...