A team of geologists coming from New Zealand, New Caledonia, Australia, the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered from the sea and ...

More than two hundred years ago, a man called William Smith did something extraordinary. He became the first person to map the geology of an entire nation. Not only was this scientifically significant ...

The age of Mare Orientale could act like a lunar Rosetta stone for dating the age of the moon's other giant impact basins.

Sometimes, significant scientific findings occur entirely by chance. This was exactly the case with the recent discovery of a ...