When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

Researchers have discovered cratonic thinning occurring beneath North America, driven by the remnants of the Farallon Plate.

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

China placed export restrictions on rare earth elements on Friday as part of its sweeping response to U.S. President Donald ...

The T Coronae Borealis, also known as T CrB, is a recurrent nova that bursts about every 80 years. Astronomers are pointing ...

SpaceX is wrapping up the latest chapter in its commercial human spaceflight endeavors with the return of Fram2. The mission is carrying four passengers in a unique orbit ...

The seasoned astronauts were left floating in space after four thrusters caused the capsule to lose all control.

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

There are more thrusters to fall back on, but as the pair of astronauts approached the ISS in Starliner, they lost another ...

The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

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