Chemical Formula: Al2(SiO4)OLocality: Common world wide.Name Origin: From the Greek kyanos = “blue.”
Kyanite, whose name derives from the Greek word kuanos sometimes referred to as “kyanos”, meaning...
Danish and Swedish researchers have dated the enormous Hiawatha impact crater, a 31 km-wide meteorite crater buried under a kilometer of Greenlandic ice. The...
"The impact probably came from behind."
A violent encounter with a rival dinosaur may explain why Big John, the most massive Triceratops skeleton ever found,...
An immaculately preserved dinosaur leg uncovered in North Dakota may be a relic from the day a massive asteroid slammed into Earth, bringing the age...
New international research led by the University of St Andrews presents a novel way to understand the structure and formation of our oldest continents.
The...
Totality will last nearly 5 minutes in some places.
Exactly two years from today, a total solar eclipse will sweep across North America, plunging tens...
This wave was taller than the Empire State Building.
In July 1958, an 8.3-magnitude earthquake at the Fairweather Fault rocked Alaska's southern coast. The ground-shaking...
