The historic Chateau at the Oregon Caves is an architectural gem that deserves recognition beyond its role as a place to ...

Today, the moon doesn't have a magnetic field at all. But some rocks — notably, many samples returned from NASA's Apollo ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and skeleton-free, explaining why their fossils don’t appear until much later. By ...

For about six months, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called boxwork, low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall with sandy ...

The soda straws are another geological oddity that sounds more like a menu item than a cave feature. These thin, hollow tubes ...

Mars gets its red color from oxidized iron dust, and the oldest myth mistake remains the same: Mars is Roman, while Ares is ...

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.

The Earth's magnetic field and oxygen evolved together over 540 million years, according to a major NASA study.

NASA’s breathtaking space photo reveals the hidden beauty of Zimbabwe’s Great Dyke, a 2.5-billion-year-old geological ...

Marcia Bjornerud loves rocks. Not just under a petrographic microscope, but as animated entities with properties and ...

A river that slices through a 13,000-foot mountain range shouldn’t exist like this. Now scientists say a hidden process 200 km underground may finally explain why.

Tiny zircon crystals are revealing that Earth’s earliest history may have included surprisingly complex tectonic activity.