New Southwest Research Institute-led modeling indicates the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson may have formed about ...

William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the ...

The study indicates that regional water availability limits both the current and future production of 32 geological resources ...

Geological resources such as critical metals and minerals, essential for the diffusion of technologies such as renewable energy and energy storage towards a decarbonized society, are indispensable for ...

Hydrothermal fluids can transport suspended metal-rich melt droplets (nano-to-micron-sized) that are precursors to polymineral inclusions and potentially a key process in noble metal ...

Scientists scanning the Moon’s lunar rugged surface have made an unexpected discovery—two enormous canyons, each plunging 2.2 ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

This is really an eclipse for the Americas, said NASA's Noah Petro, a planetary geologist who specializes in the moon. It's going to be a treat. A look at what happens during different types of ...

Researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly redefine our understanding of the origins of life and how our planet was shaped. The team found ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft identifies over 40 enormous lava lakes on Io, shedding light on the extreme volcanism sculpting Jupiter’s moon.

Our scientists study the Earth, and other planets, on scales from the molecular to the planetary scale; from the microsecond to the geological time scale; and from its birth about 4500 million years ...