Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

A recent study investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions. Researchers pushed these conditions to the limits, ...

I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

Earliest inner solar system planetesimals shaped the inventory of moderately volatile elements in terrestrial planets.

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the ...

Yellowstone Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why — the dynamic landscape contains a ...

New research reveals that Earth and Mars lost essential elements due to violent cosmic collisions, not early planetary formation processes ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

New research suggests an ancient hotspot helped shape the Great Lakes, challenging traditional formation theories.

NASA has a network of telescopes used to track near-Earth asteroids ... Photograph by NASA/Science Photo Library Asteroids often rotate, with their sunward side getting warmed up before spinning ...