"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: In geological layers around the world (particularly in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Usually, geologic layers build on one another, with younger rocks piling on top of older ones. A new study, however, shows that this process is ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The beginnings of a strange layer of molten rock deep inside the Earth may have finally been figured out by geoscientists ...

Geology in our middle Colorado River watershed isn’t a simple affair, but it’s not remarkably complicated or incredibly obscure, either. It follows the general principles of geology, with young layers ...

In a recent study published in Nature Astronomy, a team of researchers from Cornell University examined bright spots beneath the south pole of Mars and hypothesize that they are the results of ...

The devastation from the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile is a reminder of ever-present, powerful geologic forces. Aspen is a long way from the present day’s colliding plates of converging continents, ...

I love the Grand Canyon, both personally (because of all the good memories I have of my adventures there), and as a scientist. I first saw it in the early summer of 1981 when I went on a six-week-long ...