Life loves rivers. Here on Earth, large drainage basins cover nearly half of the land surface. On Mars, they cover only about ...

A new study reveals how shifting ice shells on icy moons can cause dramatic pressure changes, sometimes enough to boil their hidden oceans. The outer planets of our Solar System are accompanied by ...

Sophisticated new chemical analysis of gases trapped in rocks for millions of years has cast new light on the origin of the ...

Alfred University Assistant Professor of Geology Kristian Olson met undergraduate Piper Moore in his Structural Geology class ...

A team from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has collaborated with researchers from ...

Polaris Expeditionary Learning School offers career pathways in outdoor recreation leadership and natural resources and environmental science.

Far from being quiet, frozen backwaters, the icy moons of the outer solar system are starting to look like some of the most ...

Rains have transformed central Arizona’s waterways, offering a vivid reminder of how dramatically our landscapes can shift ...

Learn why Kolkata is referred to as the ‘Geological Capital of India’. Explore the geological significance, research institutes, educational options, and career opportunities.

The search for past or present life should be the top science objective of future human missions to Mars, a new National ...

When the early Earth’s magma ocean crystallized 4.4 billion years ago, the deep mantle trapped an ocean’s worth of water, ...

A 20-year project in Bangladesh reveals that lowering arsenic levels in drinking water can slash death rates from major chronic diseases. Participants who switched to safer wells had the same risk ...