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This central Japan city famed for its jade stones is set to ask people to refrain from taking the prized mineral formations ...

Even though humans have pondered the moon since the first of us looked skyward, there is still much we don't know about it.

Hubbard, who first joined the USGS as a postdoc, is part of the agency’s Earth Mapping Resource Initiative (Earth MRI).

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No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the red planet never gets old for Mariek Schmidt.

The riches thought to lie beneath Greenland's icy terrain have been coveted for more than a century. But how easy are they to ...

Fieldwork is underway at the Black Dragon and Red Dragon target areas to verify historical results via mapping and sampling.