A new study has found that most rare earth deposits – sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy ...

Low, winding ridges run across the Moon’s dark plains like faint seams in cooled wax. They are easy to miss in a wide photo. Up close, they look like the surface has been gently pushed from below. A ...

It’s somewhat surprising to me that after all the years that Google Earth Blog has been around, we’ve never seen a file that focuses on the plate tectonics of earth. We’ve discussed various ...

A gravity gradient model of the central Indian Ocean shows the junction of the African tectonic plate (left), the Indo-Australian plate (right) and the Antarctic plate (bottom). Credit: Scripps ...

Scientists are among the millions of die-hard Game of Thrones fans digesting the show’s finale today. The striking landscape of Game of Thrones has led some researchers to build climate simulations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A small mare ridge in Northeast Mare Imbrium taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. (CREDIT: NASA / GSFC / Arizona ...