Scientists have mapped how Earth’s deepest mantle is being deformed—and the results point to long-lost tectonic plates buried ...

A groundbreaking discovery has revealed that Mars’ surface shares striking similarities with Earth’s coldest regions. Published in the journal Icarus, new research by scientists at the University of ...

According to a recent study, events geologists use to distinguish transitions between geological chapters in Earth's story follow a hidden hierarchical pattern, one that could shed light on both past ...

New research published in the journal Geoscience Frontiers highlights the cyclic patterns of geologic activity on Earth. Scientists from New York University report findings from an analysis of major ...

Researchers have analyzed the shifting patterns of entire dune fields on Earth and Mars, as seen from orbit, and found they are a direct signature of recent environmental change. This new tool can be ...

Orthophoto of solifluction lobes in Norway (The Norwegian Mapping Authority) with overlays (lower right) of fluid contact line instabilities in a numerical model (; Kondic and Diez, 2001) and physical ...

NASA’s Juno spacecraft has revealed that auroras on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede share structural similarities with those on Earth ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– In an analysis of the past 1.2 million years, UC Santa Barbara geologist Lorraine Lisiecki discovered a pattern that connects the regular changes of the Earth's orbital ...