Images from NASA's Cassini mission show river networks draining into lakes in Titan's north polar region. The thick, hazy atmosphere of Titan, Saturn's largest natural satellite, hides a complex moon ...

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks represents a gap of around a billion years of history. Among much debate ...

When it comes to impact craters, Earth is the pauper of the solar system. Even with a recent, still-to-be-confirmed crater discovery under Greenland’s ice, there are fewer than 200 known impact ...

Weathering and erosion slowly chisel, polish, and buff Earth's rock into ever evolving works of art—and then wash the remains into the sea. The processes are definitively independent, but not ...

From rugged mountain peaks to sandy beaches, erosion is constantly at work reshaping the Earth’s surface. Driven by water, wind, ice, and even human activity, this process can take millennia—or just ...

The bulk elemental composition of Earth can’t be fully explained by compositional differences in its initial building blocks, according to a new study by Paul Frossard and colleagues. Instead, they ...

Recent fieldwork by Griffith University researchers has highlighted an African country is facing a rapidly escalating environmental crisis as severe gully erosion – locally termed “mega gullies” – ...

Impact craters leave quite an impression on the surface of planets and moons — just think of Earth’s moon, which gets its distinctive appearance from millions of encounters of asteroids over the ...

Earth’s climate isn’t easy to cool down – especially if you want it cold enough for ice caps to form. According to a model of the geological forces shaping the climate over the past 420 million years, ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. In this study, we test whether collisional erosion of early crusts can explain the chemical divergence between the BE and EC.

New research provides further evidence that rocks representing up to a billion years of geological time were carved away by ancient glaciers during the planet's 'Snowball Earth' period. New research ...