Mercury, the innermost planet of our Solar System is a grey, barren world to our human eyes. In stark contrast, this map shows a portion of the surface in a patchwork of colour, each shade ...

The proposed Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument region provides unparalleled access to geologic features associated with an ancient tectonic system where one plate descended beneath another.

NASA has released aglobal color map of the dwarf planet Ceres showing the highs and lowsof topography on the rocky body's surface. The new map comes with newofficial names for many of the craters and ...

In July 2015, the New Horizons probe zipped past Pluto, and images and information gathered during the historic flyby are still being processed and studied. Now, the International Astronomical Union ...

Gone are the days of naming schools after individuals. The Garfield Re-2 school board agreed Tuesday to name two of its soon-to-be-constructed schools for geological features rather than for ...

Hydrogen-producing hydrothermal systems in the deep ocean are rare but critical to understanding Earth's internal processes and the conditions that may have fostered life's origins. Now scientists ...

Researchers at Canada’s University of Regina are studying how uranium deposits in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin formed more than 1.5 billion years ago to help figure out the best places to look for ...

Scientists at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute (PSI) have found further evidence for the large role that water has likely played in shaping the Martian landscape. Their results, which will ...

BRITAIN occupies a peculiarly vital position in geological science. Within its small area are examples of a great range of geological features and of rocks of almost all ages. In the development of ...

One of Utah's most well-known geological features has collapsed. The Double Arch, which has also been known as the "Toilet Bowl," "Crescent Pool," and the "Hole in the Roof," was formed within ...