A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die ...

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Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

Opalized ammonite fossils are some of the most unique and spectacular paleontological specimens. They were formed through a ...

Deep beneath the choppy waters of the North Sea, something strange is challenging the very rules that have guided geologists ...

Gold has always been a hot commodity. But these days, finding a nugget isn’t too tricky: Much of the world’s gold is mined from natural veins of quartz, a glassy mineral that streaks through large ...

Now you don't see it. Now, you do. And now you don't see it again. Astronomers have discovered a bright, mysterious geologic object – where one never existed – on Cassini mission radar images of ...

Deep beneath the waves of the North Sea, the seafloor is behaving in an unexpected way. There, scientists have discovered hundreds of vast sand mounds, some on the scale of several kilometers across, ...