Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Magnetic crystals provide the earliest evidence yet of the plate tectonics that likely made Earth habitable, pushing its start back by 140 million years.

Climb onto the rim and things look even weirder. You see a flat, narrow ridge with a horizon fairly close, as it curves away ...

NASA’s twin ESCAPADE spacecraft will uncover how the Sun stripped Mars of its atmosphere. Mars is a very different world ...

Even 200 years after asteroid 16 Psyche was discovered, astronomers continue to puzzle over its formation. Psyche is the 10th ...

A UC Santa Barbara graduate student alongside a local nonprofit research group have advanced the frontiers of physics while ...

Highlights: Uranium and High-Grade REE Mineralization at Surface: Significant REE mineralization grades associated with ...

Expansion of tenure, commencement of sole-funded exploration and next-generation "quantum" gravity partnership at wholly owned Cowal East project within the highly prospective Cowal Igneous Complex ...

Some of the universe’s densest objects can twist, stretch, and resonate in ways that challenge even the most seasoned ...

A team of geophysicists has traced the origins of Earth’s most extreme gravitational anomaly, a vast depression beneath ...

Gravity may seem constant, but it actually varies across the planet—and one of the strangest places is Antarctica, where gravity is slightly weaker than expected. Scientists have traced this “gravity ...

Neutron stars harbor some of the most extreme environments in the universe: their densities soar to several times those of ...