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Topic: Geology

Artist's impression of Earth ring system (Oliver Hull)

Earth may have once had ring like Saturn

Rae Hodge
'Before' image of landslide site taken on Aug. 12, 2023 (Søren Rysgaard)

How a landslide rang Earth like a gong

Rae Hodge
Mars Express sees traces of ‘spiders’ in Mars’s Inca City (Photo illustration by Salon/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/TGO/CaSSIS)

Mars probe spots "spider" shapes

Matthew Rozsa
Mars Dust Storm (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The secret history of water on Mars

Rae Hodge
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Moon (Getty Images/MASTER)

New Moon research illuminates its past

Matthew Rozsa
Lava erupts from the crater of a volcano near the mountain Litli-Hrútur, about 40 kilometers southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland. (Philipp Schulze/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Iceland prepares for volcanic eruption

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Artwork of the so-called ring of fire. This is a region of tectonic plate boundaries around the Pacific Ocean, where earthquakes and volcanoes are common. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The case of the missing tectonic plate

Rae Hodge
Helium Balloon Earth (Getty Images/Andriy Onufriyenko)

Earth's core is leaking helium

Matthew Rozsa
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The supermoon rises behind clouds above an apartment block on April 07, 2020 in Manchester, United Kingdom. (Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

Moon 40 million years older: analysis

Rae Hodge
Planet Mercury (Getty Images/themotioncloud)

Shrinking planet Mercury getting smaller

David Rothery - The Conversation
Himalayas, Mt. Everest, Khumbu Valley, Nepal (Getty Images/John Harper)

Himalayas are much older than we thought

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Planet Mars (Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Earthquakes on Mars reveal core mystery

Troy Farah
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Lost River Caverns in Hellertown, Pennsylvania (Wiki Commons/Horseluv10)

The world is full of mystery rivers

Matthew Rozsa
Illustration of planet Venus with visible atmosphere (Getty Images/Artur Plawgo/Science Photo Library)

Venus joins the active volcano club

Matthew Rozsa
(Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Alaska’s coastal towns fight erosion

Saima Sidik - Grist
An earthquake survivor reacts as rescuers look for victims and other survivors in Hatay, the day after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country's southeast on February 7, 2023. (BULENT KILIC/AFP via Getty Images)

Why we can’t predict earthquakes yet

Harold Tobin - The Conversation
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Earth core structure illustrated with geological layers according to scale (Getty Images/NASA/johan63)

Earth's inner core slows down

Matthew Rozsa
Satellite view of the eye of a tropical storm, hurricane (Getty Images/Naeblys)

Hurricanes will devastate coastal cities

Tyler Winkler - The Conversation
Planet Earth, sun and stars (Getty images/NASA/egal)

Is Earth a self-regulating organism?

Troy Farah
Illustration of a tyrannosaurus as an asteroid strikes the Earth. (Getty Images/MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

The dinosaur-killing asteroid had a twin

Matthew Rozsa
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Perseverance rover on Mars (Getty Images/dima_zel/iStock)

Mars rover adopts a pet rock by accident

Nicole Karlis
Jupiter's large moon, Europa, is covered by a thick crust of ice above a vast ocean of liquid water (Getty Images/Ron Miller/Stocktrek Images)

The chance of life on Europa goes up

Matthew Rozsa
"A Trip to the Moon." French movie by Georges Melies, 1902. Space rocket hits moon in the eye. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

Scientists elated by lunar junk impact

Matthew Rozsa
1993 California Gold Rush. Ralph Shock holds a nine ounce nugget found in the North fork of Tuolumne River outside Jamestown in mid May. Ralph says the nugget is worth between US $5,800 and $8,500. Nuggets that can be used for jewelry are prized and valued beyond their weight. (Steve Starr/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The Gold Rush returns to California

Becki Robins - Undark
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