Excessive displacement of the earth's crust has been limited, at least since the later Paleozoic, to well-defined belts, here called the earth's "mobile belts," which are virtually continuous and form ...

Researchers have analyzed the shifting patterns of entire dune fields on Earth and Mars, as seen from orbit, and found they are a direct signature of recent environmental change. This new tool can be ...

(A–B) Locations of mapped dune fields on (A) Earth and (B) Mars. (C–D) Examples of mapping and interaction identification on (C) linear dunes in Tanami Desert, Australia, and (D) crescentic dunes at ...

This far infrared photo taken by Tiandu-2 satellite camera on April 8, 2024 shows the Moon (L) and the Earth. [Photo/China National Space Administration/Handout via Xinhua] BEIJING - Chinese ...

Google Earth Screenshots Reveal Our Planet’s Beautiful, Pattern-Like Designs An artist virtually flies the globe via Google Earth, capturing its most eye-popping aerial views along the way.

Chinese researchers, in collaboration with counterparts from France, Germany and Ireland, have discovered that between 650 million and 280 million years ago, the Earth-Moon distance increased by ...

In a world made small and accessible by technology, it is easy to forget the magnitude of nature’s infinite complexity. But sometimes technology reminds us, such as when trawling planet Earth on ...

A puzzlingly regular waxing and waning of Earth's biodiversity may ultimately trace back to our solar system's bobbing path around the Milky Way, a new study suggests. Every 60 million years or so, ...

Despite its dry, dusty surface and thinner atmosphere, Mars may have more in common with Earth than scientists previously thought. In a new study, researchers at the University of Rochester—including ...