In his latest video dispatch, our writer explains the naming debate surrounding the world’s highest peak, which has three ...

New high-resolution satellite map reveals nearly 100,000 unknown ocean mountains, or seamounts, boosting climate and maritime ...

Tibetan uplift was mainly caused by post-collisional mantle dynamics, not ongoing India-Asia convergence. The study ...

A new study uses a paleotidal model to trace the formation of carbon-rich mud deposits over thousands of years.

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A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute at the University of California Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley ...

However, such formations are not only found deep beneath Earth's surface – they also occur on Mars ... The terrain extends in an inverted crescent shape to the north of the Olympus Mons Aureole – a ...

Launched in December 2022, the satellite measures the height of water on nearly all of Earth’s surface, including the ocean, lakes, reservoirs and rivers. Researchers can use these differences in ...

Earth's tropical atmosphere contains a number of large-scale ... causing areas of enhanced cloudiness on either side of the equator at Australian longitudes. The map below shows the modelled influence ...