Five tourists died after being caught in a severe blizzard while trekking in Chile’s famed Torres del Paine National Park in ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

This massive stratovolcano towers 14,411 feet above sea level. Entry costs just $30 per vehicle for seven days, making it one ...

A naming contest, a massive Martian scar, and a close call with planetary fame. Here's how I nearly etched my name into Mars.

The Chang’e-6 mission returned lunar samples from the Moon’s far side, which contain fragments of a rare type of meteorite that may have contributed water to both the Earth and the Moon. According to ...

Sifting through the first-ever rock samples collected from the far side of the Moon, scientists in China have unearthed a surprise: fragments of a rare type of meteorite that could help to piece ...