Scientists have been arguing about the origin of strange streaks on Mars since the earliest missions to the Red Planet.

Afar is a hotspot with hot rock masses rising from deep within the mantle. It created volcanism and lifted the landscape in northeastern Africa. Hot rock masses then flowed further north beneath the ...

Matthew Boyer hopped on an Argentine military plane to one of the more remote habitations on Earth: Marambio Station at the ...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), launched by NASA in 2005, is orbiting Mars tasked with studying its atmosphere, ...

A new study led by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh geologist Timothy Paulsen and University of Colorado Boulder ...

This is what a recent study published in The Planetary Science Journal hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how specific regions of Europa’s surface could provide insight into ...

Explore NASA's cancelled Europa mission and learn why Europa is a key target in the search for extraterrestrial life.

The research supports the argument that Venus’ tectonics are active today, he says. What’s more, the demonstrated ability of computer simulations to predict what spacecraft may observe will be a boon ...

New research confirms Venus has active mantle plumes shaping its crust, showing it's geologically alive like early Earth.

The small world was found during a search for the hypothetical Planet Nine, and astronomers say the next time it will reach ...

The ammonia from Adélie penguin guano reacts with sulfur-containing gases in the atmosphere to aid in forming clouds, which ...

The two disciplines are core components to other fields of geoscience research including paleobiology, geobiology, tectonics, paleoclimate, petroleum geology, Earth history, geochronology, ...