Makoshika State Park in Glendive might be Montana’s best-kept secret – a sprawling badlands paradise that somehow flies under the radar while its more famous cousins get all the attention. The name ...

The past few months, we’ve been giving you a quick rundown of the various ways ores form underground; now the time has come ...

Atmospheric dust plays an important role in the way Earth absorbs and reflects sunlight, impacting the global climate, cloud ...

Earth researchers have spent generations decoding the Grand Canyon, turning its cliffs and chasms into one of the clearest ...

For decades, volcanologists believed that the primary trigger for explosive eruptions was a drop in pressure as magma rises toward the surface. When pressure falls, gases dissolved deep within the ...

Division of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden In countries like Sweden, the ...

In the last edition of our ongoing series on how planets get ore– those wonderful rocks rich in industrial minerals worth mining– we started talking about hydrothermal fluid deposits. Hydrothermal ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, ...

A six-wheeled geologist named Perseverance may have just found the first extraterrestrial life form. A year ago, the rover came across mineral patterns that resembled the chemical signature of ...

Various man-made objects embedded into geological rocks. Image from the study. The coastline near Derwent Howe, in England’s Cumbria, hardly seems a place where geologists would find new things.

Billions of years ago, Jupiter’s violent growth transformed the young solar system, smashing icy and rocky bodies together at incredible speeds. These cataclysmic collisions created tiny molten ...

Four and a half billion years ago Jupiter rapidly grew to its massive size. Its powerful gravitational pull disrupted the orbits of small rocky and icy bodies similar to modern asteroids and comets, ...