The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction ...

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International Rock Day is observed every year on July 13 to recognise the natural wonders of rocks and stones and their ...

China's Chang’e-6 mission has delivered the first-ever samples from the Moon’s far side, shedding light on one of planetary ...

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The partial vertebra appeared inside a 2.5-inch-diameter column of rock that researchers drilled, earning the title of the ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...

A museum in Denver has found a fossil that is almost 70 million years old under its parking lot while running an unrelated ...

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science already houses a vast trove of dinosaur bones, but it recently received an unexpected ...