A team of Earth scientists affiliated with Peking University and the Southern University of Science and Technology, both in ...

Fresh advances in 3D scanning technology are making it possible to explore some of the hardest-to-reach and most fragile sites on Earth.

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

When volcanic eruptions make headlines, the images often depict fiery lava and towering ash clouds. But beneath Antarctica’s ...

This photo gallery, curated by Deputy Director of Photography Special Projects Jacqueline Larma, highlights some of the most ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

NASA's Perseverance rover captured two swirling dust devils in January on the surface of Mars after summitting the Jezero Crater.

New research from Portland State University focused on identifying signs of life—biosignatures—in extreme environments here ...

The First Spacewalk (1965): This iconic photo of Ed White floating freely during NASA’s Gemini 4 mission captured America’s first-ever spacewalk. It showed the world that humans could survive and move ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first detailed images of asteroid 2024 YR4, providing new insights into ...