Rivers join downstream, flow downhill, and eventually meet an ocean or terminal lake: These are fundamental rules of how ...

Two valleys extending away from a giant crater suggest that upcoming Artemis missions are more likely to sample ancient lunar ...

With an underlying universal theme of convection, a new textbook introduces upper-level geology, geophysics, physics, and engineering students to the geophysics behind the Earth System.

In mid-January, a team of scientists were sailing aboard a research vessel in frigid Antarctic waters. They planned to investigate an unexplored section of the Bellingshausen Sea and the creatures ...

New rock and paleomagnetic research give evidence for prolonged heating during the Cambrian-Ordovician tectonic consolidation of West Gondwanaland.

During a voyage off the east coast of Africa, researchers collected detailed measurements of massive swirling currents that ...

Wells overpumping groundwater could be forcing rivers to seep underground, a new study shows. Regions with intensive ...

A new ensemble of marine ecosystem models aims to improve understanding of how climate change will affect the waters ...

The source for the isotopically-enriched Hawaiian magmas contains peridotites that experienced near-surface melting prior ...

The International Union of Geological Sciences chose not to designate a new geologic epoch, but the matter is not yet settled ...

Low-level clouds over the oceans, extensively studied for their role in climate change, are re-examined from a new ...

Fragile highland ecosystems showed low resilience to fire, which renders them more vulnerable to long-term degradation.