A new study has found that most rare earth deposits – sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy ...

The successful TV series Game of Thrones (or GoT), based on the novels by Fantasy- and Science-Fiction author George R.R. Martin, featured a lot of geology. Filming locations included the mountain of ...

Scientists are among the millions of die-hard Game of Thrones fans digesting the show’s finale today. The striking landscape of Game of Thrones has led some researchers to build climate simulations ...

Low, winding ridges run across the Moon’s dark plains like faint seams in cooled wax. They are easy to miss in a wide photo. Up close, they look like the surface has been gently pushed from below. A ...

A gravity gradient model of the central Indian Ocean shows the junction of the African tectonic plate (left), the Indo-Australian plate (right) and the Antarctic plate (bottom). Credit: Scripps ...

Tectonic map of the Earth. The first continental crust on Earth formed more than 3 billion years ago. Likely the first fragments formed by partial melting and re-crystallization of the primordial ...

Scientists are among the millions of die-hard Game of Thrones fans digesting the show’s finale today. The striking landscape of Game of Thrones has led some researchers to build climate simulations ...

April 23 (UPI) --For the first time, scientists have produced a comprehensive map of the tectonic stresses acting on the North American continent. In the short term, the map of North American faults - ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small mare ridge in Northeast Mare Imbrium taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. (CREDIT: NASA / GSFC / Arizona ...

Earth is estimated to be around 4.5 billion years old, with life first appearing around 3 billion years ago. To unravel this incredible history, scientists use a range of different techniques to ...