"We have a new understanding of the behavior of caldera dynamics that can be applied to other volcanoes all over the world," study's lead author says

Scientists examined part of Mars' Utopia Planitia region, in the mid-northern latitudes, with the orbiter's ground-penetrating Shallow Radar instrument

Rutgers’ Sonia Tikoo helped perform groundbreaking Chicxulub crater study

The team led by Sami Nabhan of the Freie Universität Berlin studied ancient rock formations from South Africa's Barberton greenstone belt

“The coincidence of an impact with a major climate change is nothing short of remarkable,” researcher says

For the first time, physicists at LLNL have demonstrated how an asteroid or comet impact could have created Stickney crater without destroying Phobos completely

The major influences on ocean chemistry today are hydrothermal flow (hot water that has circulated through the crust) and surface weathering (the river transport of material eroded from land into the ocean)

A study that describes the Earth’s activity below the Greenland Ice Sheet is a valuable contribution to climate science, one expert says

Improved Earth system models paint bleak climate change picture

Warming climate triggers changes in forests' impact on cleaner water