USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground ...

Eugene Shoemaker with some of the first geologic maps of the Moon, Flagstaff AZ, mid-1960's Many people are surprised when they learn that well before the first landing of Apollo in 1969, we already ...

The United States Geological Survey has released a mobile-friendly interactive geological map of the lower 48 states and it's completely free to use.

Whether you're an avid rock collector or simply interested in the world around you — this new tool is designed to make ...

Geologic maps are used to locate natural resources, such as water or oil, or the best place to hunt for fossils, but they can also be eye catching works of art. Sharon Purdy A low-lying topographic ...

ONE OF THE reasons I became a geologist was the maps. I will never have enough walls in my house for all the beautiful geologic maps I'd love to hang. But these maps are also full of information about ...

New studies of the “platypus of materials” help explain how their atoms arrange themselves into orderly, but nonrepeating, patterns. A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths A ...

RENO (AP) — Low-flying aircraft will fly over northern Nevada in the next two months to take measurements that a government agency says will help assess the region's geology and hydrology features ...

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The world's geologists have dug out their maps and are sticking them together to produce the first truly ...

More than 400 years after its discovery by astronomer Galileo Galilei, the largest moon in the solar system — Jupiter’s moon Ganymede — has finally claimed a spot on the map. A group of scientists led ...

A research team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences has released a new high-resolution geologic map of the Moon. The map includes discoveries made in the last ten years, like an updated chronology ...