What is the collective noun for a group of volcano scientists? While some tongue-in-cheek responses might be “an eruption of volcanologists” or “a swarm of seismologists,” we’ll stick to “an assembly ...

Yellowstone Park is a popular destination for geology field trips. It’s easy to see why — the dynamic landscape contains a ...

The rover's 26th sample, known as "Silver Mountain," has textures "unlike anything we've seen before," NASA says.

Scientists and schoolteachers have teamed up to design training and classroom materials that help educators understand and ...

An estimated two out of five homes in Idaho have high levels of radon that need mitigation. This could largely be due to ...

New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

Founded in 1931, the Nevada Museum of Art is the oldest established cultural ... Will Bruder and inspired by the landscape and the geological formations of the Black Rock Desert.

Their evidence comes from a pair of sunken, continent-sized “out of tune” geological islands located inside a tectonic plate “graveyard” 1,800-feet-below the planet’s surface.

Instead of relying on energy-hungry reactors to generate high temperatures and pressure, researchers are looking underground at Earth's natural heat and forces to cook up ammonia for fertilizer.

An international team of scientists, including the University of Southampton, have identified a series of geological features around South East Sicily that point to a massive flood taking place ...

“The Stony Gap sandstone turned straight up into a hog back by the Abbs Valley Anticline,” Schaer said. The anticline is a geologic fold that in this case forms an elongated trough in the landscape—a ...

Members of the Bottineau Rockhounds club traveled to the Capitol last week to tell lawmakers why they should approve House Bill 1186. Students from Bottineau Public Schools’ Rockhounds club ...