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NASA's bringing out the big guns.
Large, mysterious earthworks built thousands of years ago were discovered in the Amazon basin.
There's not much going on today but Mars must have been very volcanically active.
Finding fossilized remains of dinosaurs is one thing, but now, paleontologists have discovered proteins dating back to 195 million years ago.
It's all geology, no mystic civilization.
The Kilauea volcano has created a dramatic "firehose" as molten lava continues to spew out hot lava and ash.
It's also probably related to you.
Researchers have found a very old and "alien like" insect and they've decided it doesn't fit anywhere in the current tree of life.
It was adorable, but also terrifying.
Utilizing rigorous, state-of-the-art methods researchers have confirmed the presence of collagen in the fossil of an 80-million-year-old Brachylophosaurus.
It was a brachiopode after all - who would have guessed?
Geoscientists working in South America have uncovered an ancient berry.
This was actually very challenging to pinpoint.
They were once thought to be impossible.
Water on Mars? Yes please!
Most of the world's volcanoes are underwater, and we're "seeing" them better than ever.
Diamonds are a geologist's best friends.
Nature is beautiful both on the outside and inside.
Who needs oxygen when you got ... sulfur?
A sight to behold.
Water isn't only skin deep.
For a moment, the ground beneath parts of Mexico behaved like a fluid.
Fast geology.
Mercury, one of the most hellish places in the Solar System, is shrinking.
Dinosaurs ruled the Earth for millions of years, but they took it slowly.
The goal is to identify the pathways hot water uses to travel to the surface.
This powerful volcano is more bizarre than meets the eye.
An enormous dome was found deep in the Andes, on top of a massive magma store.
What's the Moon made from, anyway?
Geologists are getting an unprecedented glimpse into the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Going down, in a blaze of glory.
The little rover that could.
A stunning app put together by Smithsonian's Global Volcanism Project.
It might be a good thing... but we're not sure yet.
Well preserved fossils were supposed to be easy.
Worrying news surface in Japan, as geologists warn Sakurajima volcano might be powering up.
It took two generations to bring this fossil to light.
After two large earthquakes with magnitudes over 4, the Katla volcano in Iceland seems set to erupt.
It's a new time -- geologically speaking, at least.
Authorities and locals are searching for survivors.
Museum collections are riddled with valuable specimens.
An ancient oceanic slab buried beneath the Mediterranean sea might revise textbooks.
A small tooth in a fecal sample confirms that the fierce predator ate its young.
Bones to stones.
The new findings call our current theories on the mass extinction event into question.
Despite being thousands of kilometers away, the sun and moon are behind some of the earthquakes on the Earth.
Turning air into rock.
But maybe our neighbour wasn't always so red-faced after all.
We just bought some more time.
Earth's magnetic past wasn't as simple as today.