The observations not only confirm a drastic drying out of Earth’s continents, but can help us measure the scale and rate.

Check out 24 of the world’s must unusual landscapes — from the hellish Darvaza Gas Crater in Turkmenistan to the “snow ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

Rising global temperatures are driving the sharp decline in terrestrial water storage. This trend isn’t likely to change, scientists say.

Despite its Earth-like rivers and lakes of liquid methane, Saturn’s moon Titan seems oddly lacking in river deltas — ...

Tom Paradise, University Professor of geosciences, will give a talk at 3:05 p.m. Friday in Gearhart Hall 26, about the visually stunning al-Khamsin winds that he and fellow geoscientists experienced ...

Titan’s coastlines lack river deltas, surprising scientists and raising questions about its active surface processes.

Earth, as seen by Cassini's radar. In order to understand what landforms on Titan could be seen by Cassini's radar, researchers looked at well-known Earth landforms through Cassini's perspective. The ...

For scientists who want to learn about the geological history of a planet, river deltas are a great place to start. Deltas ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

Beginning in the ’90s, formerly rural regions transformed into far-flung enclaves for the elite, and vast acreages became ...