"Most excitingly, this new idea addresses one of the longstanding habitability problems on Europa and is a good sign for the ...

Europa’s subsurface ocean might be getting fed after all. Scientists found that salty, nutrient-rich surface ice can become ...

Thundereggs look like regular rocks from the outside, but contain intricate and colorful mineral patterns inside — often made ...

Curtin University researchers have demonstrated a new way to uncover the ancient history of Australia's landscapes, which ...

Greenland’s mineral resources hold massive economic potential, but accessing them isn’t easy President Donald Trump’s desire ...

Tiny crystals preserved in ancient beach sands are offering scientists a new way to read the deep history of Australia’s landscapes.

Researchers have recently identified and confirmed the natural occurrence of single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphitic carbon in lunar samples collected by the Chang'e 6 mission, offering key ...

Earth’s atmosphere is slowly leaking into space, and new research shows some of it reaches the Moon, where it may be ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, an area that could give rise ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

1. Introduction -- 2. Stress -- 3. Displacement and strain -- 4. Relation between stress and strain -- 5. Loading of brittle rock to failure -- 6. Stress concentration -- 7. Theories of brittle ...

As humans make fires on the beach, far-flung plastic that has washed up there melts and fuses permanently with volcanic rocks ...