Pluto's first official surface-feature names are marked on this map, compiled from images and data gathered by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its flight through the Pluto system in 2015.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Ross Beyer
The IAU has assigned names to fourteen geological...
The footprints were discovered by Gerard Gierlinski (1st author of the study) by chance when he was on holiday on Crete in 2002. Gierlinski, a paleontologist at the Polish Geological Institute specialized in footprints, identified the footprints...
This photograph shows a morning commute in Antarctica.
Credit: Gail Ashton
After warming a natural seabed in the Antarctic Ocean by just 1° or 2° Celsius, researchers observed massive impacts on a marine assemblage, as growth rates nearly doubled....
Layered volcanic rocks in Eastern Greenland that are up to 4 miles thick were formed during ancient volcanic eruptions that caused a global warming event called the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM).
Credit: Michael Storey, Natural History Museum of...
Lead author of the study Anna Weiss, a Ph.D. candidate in The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, at a fossilized reef in Adnet, Austria.
Credit: Anna Weiss
The Great Barrier Reef, and most other large...
A true-color image of the Central Andes and surrounding landscape acquired by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft.
Credit: Image courtesy of NASA
Seismologists investigating how Earth forms new continental crust have compiled more than...
New findings suggest the ancient Earth harbored a mantle that was much more efficient at drawing down pieces of the planet’s crust.
Credit: MIT News
Plate tectonics has shaped...
An illustration of an asteroid impacting Earth.
Credit: Image courtesy NASA
Tremendous amounts of soot, lofted into the air from global wildfires following a massive asteroid strike 66 million...
Image of the collection of the Rusty Rock, 66095, on the lunar surface by lunar module pilot, Charlie Duke and commander John Young. April 1972.
Credit: NASA
The moon...
This schematic depicts a subglacial Antarctic river and overlying ice sheet. Black lines t1, t2 and t3 show where the ice sheet was grounded to the seafloor during pauses in ice retreat. Rice University researchers...
By conducting experiments at the Linac Coherent Light Source -- one of the world's most powerful X-ray lasers -- an international team of researchers led by HZDR physicist Dr. Dominik Kraus was able to demonstrate...
