The life of planet Earth is a fascinating world studied by geologists around the world. In recent months, some discoveries ...

Step back two billion years to a time when Earth looked nothing like the world we know today. This fascinating journey into ...

The banks of the Dead Sea are the lowest point on dry land but not the deepest point on Earth's surface. That distinction belongs to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, a point in the Pacific ...

Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

Mount Thor, also known as Thor Peak, is a mountain in Nunavut, Canada with the largest vertical drop in the world — a ...

Planet Earth is spinning a little faster today — resulting in one of the shortest days of the year. But the change will be so minuscule you won’t even notice. We’re talking even less time than the ...

Aerosols, small particles in the atmosphere like salt and dust, may offset a third of human-caused climate warming, though their influence is fading.

Learn how hundreds of “sinkites,” all around a kilometer across, are altering the strata in the North Sea.

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Planet Earth is set to spin a bit faster on three separate days this summer, officially starting today. The result will be shorter days, but don’t panic because the change will be so small that ...

The Department of Geology is about much more than rocks and minerals. Its faculty and students perform cutting-edge research on everything from how glaciers react to climate change to how molten lava ...

“Changing our name should enhance recruitment of both undergraduate and graduate students with diverse interests and backgrounds,” Gregg explains. “Many students are vitally interested in helping ...