For billions of years, Earth has been bombarded by tiny particles of rock and metal from space. When these extraterrestrial ...

What looks like an ordinary mountain road is anything but. Somewhere along that route, without warning, you pass from redwood ...

Roughly 124 miles (200 kilometers) beneath the Appalachian Mountains in New England lies the aptly named Northern Appalachian ...

"Up to 10% of the lunar ejecta could reach Earth within days," said Paul Wiegert, a planetary scientist and lead author of ...

Although carbon-rich asteroids are common in space, they account for less than 5% of the meteorites that reach Earth. To unravel this mystery, an international team of scientists launched a global ...

The Geological Survey of India says that Arunachal Pradesh and Assam are promising zones for graphite, vanadium and REEs.

Interest in Greenland’s minerals is soaring, driven in part by Trump, who has said the U.S. must “get” the island. But the ...

Soft-bodied Cambrian fossils found in the Grand Canyon reveals how early animals evolved complex feeding systems over 500 ...

Larry Campbell writes, The Sheep Creek mine project at the head of the West Fork could hardly be in a riskier place.

Volcanoes act as windows deep into Earth. They help us understand the formation of our planet and the others in our solar ...

Earthquakes crack rocks, releasing hydrogen and oxidants that power deep microbes without sunlight offering clues for life on ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...