Earth is a planet full of mysteries. There are so many strange yet fascinating geological phenomena that just seem impossible to be a reality. From fossilized forests to a gas crater that has burned ...

Mountain building, also known as orogenesis, is a geological process that involves the formation and uplift of large, elevated landforms, known as mountains. The term "orogenesis" comes from Greek ...

In the arid deserts of Namibia, Oman, and Saudi Arabia, researchers have uncovered an astonishing discovery: thin, orderly tubes running through marble and limestone. These structures, which have left ...

Gold has always been a hot commodity. But these days, finding a nugget isn’t too tricky: Much of the world’s gold is mined from natural veins of quartz, a glassy mineral that streaks through large ...

Scientists found marble-sized chunks of rock in an asteroid sample that wouldn't disintegrate. They realized that these pebbles are physical evidence of a mysterious geological process first spotted ...

The Mid-Atlantic Ridge in Iceland. This area is the boundary between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, which move apart ~ 2.5 cm/year. Subduction and the formation of continents, a ...

Mount Everest’s towering height isn’t shaped by tectonic forces alone. Its continued growth owes a quiet debt to nearby rivers. These rivers, cutting through deep gorges, have helped lift the mountain ...

What if it were possible to take a very slow geological process, one that takes thousands of years in nature, and speed it up so that it happens within hours, in order to slow the rate of global ...

In 2019, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sent back images of a geological phenomenon no one had ever seen before: pebbles were flying off the surface of the asteroid Bennu. The asteroid appeared to be ...