Travertine is not only a geological wonder but also a popular building material. Its use dates back to ancient Rome, evident ...

National parks bring a plethora of beauty for all to enjoy year-round, but not without the risk of rockfall at some popular ...

The Kuwait Society for Earth Sciences has reported the occurrence of sinkholes in the areas of Jal Al- Zour and Al-Mutlaa in ...

The western U.S. is a geologists' dream, home to the Rocky Mountains, the Grand Canyon, active volcanoes and striking sandstone arches. But one landform simply doesn't make sense.

A UT San Antonio-led international research team has identified chitin, the primary organic component of modern crab shells ...

All around the world, from the Red Sea to the deep ocean ridges of the Atlantic, lurk more than a dozen geological misfits.

For many years, scientists viewed Mercury as a world that no longer had an active geological history. The planet appears to be almost completely uniform, dry, barren, and mostly unchanged for the ...

"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the prospects of extraterrestrial life in its ocean." ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

Geophysicists at Washington State University have uncovered a possible explanation for how nutrients may travel into the subsurface ocean of Europa, a moon of Jupiter that ranks among the strongest ...

The Geological Agency revealed that the landslide accident that buried 30 hectares of land in Pasirlangu Village, Cisarua Sub-district, West Bandung, was not ...

The largest of the 19 earthquakes measured by the U.S. Geological Survey was a magnitude 4.2 shaker that was centered about ...