geology
What are the Earth’s Layers?
There is more to the Earth than what we can see on the surface. In fact, if you were able…
Weekly Space Hangout – Oct. 9, 2015: Nobel Prizes, Private Moon Launches & Water on Pluto!
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Guests: Paul Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter) Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg ) Kimberly Cartier (@AstroKimCartier )…
What is the Pacific “Ring of Fire”?
What if someone were to tell you that there's a region in the world where roughly 90% of the world's…
Moroccan Meteorite May Be a 4.4-Billion-Year-Old Chunk of Dark Martian Crust
Mars is often referred to as the Red Planet. But its signature color is only skin-deep – or, I should say,…
Solar System History: How Was the Earth Formed?
Just how did the Earth -- our home and the place where life as we know it evolved -- come…
Making the Moon: The Practice Crater Fields of Flagstaff, Arizona
Between the years of 1969 and 1972 the astronauts of the Apollo missions personally explored the alien landscape of the lunar…
Selling Rocks from Outer Space: an Interview with ‘Meteorite Man’ Geoff Notkin
What's the oldest thing you've ever held in your hand? A piece of petrified wood? A fossilized trilobite? A chunk…
What Craters on the Moon Teach Us About Earth
When the Moon was receiving its highest number of impacts, so was Earth. Credit: Dan Durda Some questions about our…
Scientists Suggest Evidence of Recent Lunar Volcanism
[/caption] A team of researchers at India's Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) claims it has found evidence of relatively recent volcanic…
A Peek at a Pitch-Black Pit
[/caption] MESSENGER captured this high-resolution image of an elongated pit crater within the floor of the 355-km (220-mile) -wide crater…