The outer planets of the solar system are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn's moon Enceladus, are ...

To author Anjana Khatwa, rocks are “storykeepers of time.” She blends science and spirituality to explore the origin story of our world.

A new study reveals how shifting ice shells on icy moons can cause dramatic pressure changes, sometimes enough to boil their hidden oceans. The outer planets of our Solar System are accompanied by ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

The outer planets of the Solar System are swarmed by ice-wrapped moons. Some of these, such as Saturn’s moon Enceladus, are ...

Mars was once a warm, wet world like Earth, but a catastrophic event turned it into the barren desert we see today. This video uncovers the shocking reason behind the red planet's demise: the death of ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

When astronomers search for planets that could host liquid water on their surface, they start by looking at a star's habitable zone. Water is a key ingredient for life, and on a planet too close to ...

These ancient rocks on Inishtrahull, an island off the coast of Co Donegal, that are thousands of millions of years old, are ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

That’s also true for the other moons that provide the gravitational stress. As a result, the internal oceans may actually ...

India has added seven new names to the Martian geological map. Prominent Kerala locations like Periyar, Bekal, Varkala, ...