New research published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers highlights the cyclic patterns of geologic activity on Earth. Scientists from New York University report findings from an analysis of major ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's estimated that humans have altered over half of the planet's surface, and those changes are ...

For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, said Scott King, a geoscientist in the Virginia Tech College of Science. A dwarf planet and the largest body found in the asteroid belt — the region ...

Earth is constantly evolving and reshaping itself through geological processes. Sometimes, these processes can be very dramatic: most recently, the picturesque but destructive lava flows from the ...

New images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft show that the moon’s crust is being slightly stretched, forming small valleys—at least in some small areas. High-resolution images ...