New research reveals that lithium-rich brines have a chemistry dominated by boron, fundamentally different from typical ...

Scientists have been baffled to discover that South Africa is rising out of the ocean by as much as two millimetres per year.

Beneath the Arctic’s frozen darkness, scientists have encountered rare black smokers in a place where they were never ...

The icy surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, has captured scientists' attention. Compounds like carbon dioxide and salt ...

In chaos terrains like Tara Regio, the presence of strange chemicals—including table salt and carbon dioxide—suggests that ...

As for today, the environments on Mars that could potentially support life are few and far between, and it's all about ...

As explained in a pre-press paper [PDF] titled “Discovery of a dwarf planet candidate in an extremely wide orbit: 2017 OF201” ...

Kirt Kempter likes to tease conservation groups about their efforts to try to stop erosion in the Galisteo Basin. As a geologist, he contextualizes time a bit differently than other people. He knows ...

A massive quake might drop the Pacific Northwest coastline by 6 feet, redrawing flood maps and putting thousands of homes at risk.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could ‘revolutionize’ earthquake monitoring and provide researchers the ability to ...

Artist Lauren Bon has embarked on an ambitious project to access water from the Los Angeles River. In this exclusive ...

It appears that the lithosphere, which is the rocks on the outside of the world, has a pretty significant role to play in why ...