The Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe doubles the resolution of Apollo-era maps and will support the space ambitions of China and other countries. The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has released ...

Recent scientific discoveries have challenged our understanding of the geology beneath the Himalayas, suggesting that a ...

On a day like any other, astronomers peered into the depths of space and found something utterly perplexing on the Martian surface. High-resolution images from orbiting missions revealed bizarre ...

China on Sunday released a set of geologic atlas of the global moon with a scale of 1:2.5 million, which is the first complete high-definition lunar geologic atlas in the world, providing basic map ...

Research in structural geology and tectonics seeks to define how and why deformation occurs within the earth at scales from mineral fabrics to lithospheric plates, and at time frames ranging from ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center decided to kick a hornet’s nest July 16 when it shared an image of one of Earth’s most debated oddities. Known as the Richat Structure, the formation is a series of ...

The circular formation in this photo is the Richat Structure of Mauritania, which “has captured the attention of astronauts for about as long as NASA has sent humans into orbit around Earth.” ...