Rising above the end of this city’s central avenue, the prehistoric Criel Mound—one of the largest burial mounds in West ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

Waterways throughout the Chesapeake Bay region in Virginia and Maryland are amassing large amounts of pollen — a phenomenon ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor to ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Natural Tunnel State Park manages to be simultaneously one of Virginia’s most impressive natural wonders and one of its ...

Natural Tunnel State Park represents Virginia at its most geologically spectacular yet remains surprisingly under-visited ...

We have seen plenty of stalagmites and stalactites in caverns and caves all over the world, but none can compare to the Luray ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has recently designated 22 Virginia localities as natural disaster designations due to recent drought conditions. As part of the ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

"We now have the first outlines of a geologic map of the asteroid belt." Ten years ago, Jenniskens teamed up with astronomer Hadrien Devillepoix of Curtin University and colleagues in Australia to ...

Proportion of current geological resource production exceeding production capacity determined by the regional water availability for the top ten geological resources with the largest volume of ...