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A sight to behold.
Water isn't only skin deep.
For a moment, the ground beneath parts of Mexico behaved like a fluid.
Fast geology.
Mercury, one of the most hellish places in the Solar System, is shrinking.
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for millions of years, but they took it slowly.
The goal is to identify the pathways hot water uses to travel to the surface.
This powerful volcano is more bizarre than meets the eye.
An enormous dome was found deep in the Andes, on top of a massive magma store.
What's the Moon made from, anyway?
Geologists are getting an unprecedented glimpse into the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Going down, in a blaze of glory.
The little rover that could.
A stunning app put together by Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Project.
It might be a good thing... but we're not sure yet.
Well preserved fossils were supposed to be easy.
Worrying news surface in Japan, as geologists warn Sakurajima volcano might be powering up.
It took two generations to bring this fossil to light.
After two large earthquakes with magnitudes over 4, the Katla volcano in Iceland seems set to erupt.
It's a new time -- geologically speaking, at least.
Authorities and locals are searching for survivors.
Museum collections are riddled with valuable specimens.
An ancient oceanic slab buried beneath the Mediterranean sea might revise textbooks.
A small tooth in a fecal sample confirms that the fierce predator ate its young.
Bones to stones.
The new findings call our current theories on the mass extinction event into question.
Despite being thousands of kilometers away, the sun and moon are behind some of the earthquakes on the Earth.
Turning air into rock.
But maybe our neighbour wasn't always so red-faced after all.
We just bought some more time.
Earth's magnetic past wasn't as simple as today.
Shaped by erosion, fire, or water, caves have some surprising but always beautiful births.
The Hellisheidi power plant is the largest geothermal system in the world, but also the site of a unique science experiment.
Authorities evacuated people and closed off the area to traffic, while they find a way to stabilize the collapsed area.
There's no need to panic though.
It's way older than divers thought.
Fulfilling the job that scientists and unlucky undergrads have been doing for years, the kinetic machine Jller selects and sorts pebbles found on a 6 1/2 x 13 foot platform into a grid organized by geologic age. Without any assistance, the machine analyzes rocks based on their shape and sizes, understand their correct placement and transports them […]
Canadian aboriginals have been using clay to treat their ailments for centuries.
In the past decade, ice extent at the two poles couldn't be more different. The Arctic has seen its 13 smallest maximum ice extents in the last 13 years, and since 1979 lost 620,000 square miles of winter sea ice cover, an area more than twice the size of Texas. Meanwhile, in Antarctica, ice cover has actually increased despite warming trends
If I asked you to guess where we have the best chances of finding life outside of Earth, you’d be hard pressed to think about Europa. But Jupiter’s frozen moon is beginning to look more and more attractive, and may even harbor an Earth-like ocean. We’ve written extensively before about the life harboring possibilities of […]
Mount Ruapehu on New Zealand’s north island is starting to show signs of eruption, and hikers have been warned to stay away from it. This is the real-life Mount Doom from The Lord of the Rings, where many scenes of the movie were shot. Mount Ruapehu is a stratovolcano with three major peaks: Tahurangi (2,797 m), Te […]
A surprising study found that a group of ancient lizards called mosasaurs were in fact warm-blooded.
NASA just released the first ever topographic model of Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun.
Believe it or not, this is actually lava.
The prettiest carbon allotropes of them all, diamonds have fascinated royalty, collectors and window shoppers since ancient times. Some gem-grade diamonds, no bigger than a thumb, sell for tens of million. Most, however, aren't worth much. But even the most prized diamonds aren't perfect, and it is these imperfections that might settle and age long debate among chemists and geologists: what's the source of gem-grade diamonds? A recent analysis suggests both gem diamonds and the largely impure fibrous diamonds stem from the same source.
The exact path Hannibal took in this epic voyage across the Alps has been a matter of debate among scholars, but now scientists think they've finally found it by following some unlikely bread crumbs: ancient horse dung still teeming with preserved bacteria left by Hannibal's cavalry.
British paleontologists have identified a tiny, ancient animal that carried around its young tethered in capsules around its body, like kites.
Scientists have identified a 1.5 cm creature that predates the dinosaurs by 100 million years. While not exactly a spider, the tiny beast is the closest relative to spiders, but its lineage is extinct. Spiders are basically ubiquitous. They can be found on every continent except for Antarctica and in every environment ever – except […]
A survey of a major oil and natural gas-producing region in Western Canada founds evidence that hydraulic fracturing or "fracking" does indeed cause earthquakes in the region.
A few years ago, the Cassini spacecraft made a surprising discovery: there are geysers erupting on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, spewing water and ice to great heights. However, the process which causes these geysers remained unknown or controversial. Now, scientists at the University of Chicago and Princeton University have pinpointed a mechanism through which Saturn’s tidal forces […]
