Mystics often attribute this orange color to 'Blood Moon,' or total lunar eclipse. But as it turns out, it is just simple ...

The South Atlantic Anomaly, a strange dip in the Earth's magnetic field, has grown rapidly over the last eleven years, new ...

A rock described as a flaky pastry may sound delicate, but researchers at Tohoku University found that when they fold under compressive forces in just the right way, they can actually be strong. These ...

The Teton Fault System Creates the Foundation The Teton Fault began moving approximately 10 million years ago, triggering a ...

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Scientists from NASA and Chalmers University have discovered that incompatible substances can mix on Titan’s icy surface, ...

Coccolithophores, tiny planktonic architects of Earth’s climate, capture carbon, produce oxygen, and leave behind geological ...

Everyone, that is, except French Moroccan geochemist Abderrazak El Albani, who believes he has found evidence of advanced ...

Scientists have created the first sizable meteorite diamond — also known as lonsdaleite or hexagonal diamond — a material predicted to be even harder than the diamonds normally found on Earth. The ...

Why it's incredible: The landscape looks crumpled and folded from above. Iran's folded rocks are rugged mountain ridges and valleys to the southwest of the Caspian Sea. They are an extension of the ...