For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer questions about the Balcones Escarpment and the Balcones Fault ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

Earth's first large land organisms—tree trunk-like beings that stood up to 26 feet tall—weren't early fungi but, rather, ...

Mysterious driftwood high in Grand Canyon caves hints at the legacy of Arizona’s huge impact crater.

Neo Performance Materials ( NEO:CA) ( NOPMF) is a small but rapidly growing player in midstream and downstream rare earth ...

For too long, conservatives have been fighting the culture war in the wrong places. We argue over presidential elections, ...

The Japanese Yen (JPY) trades with a mild positive bias against a broadly weaker US Dollar (USD) during the first half of the European session, though it remains close to a one-year low, touched ...

NASA's Curiosity rover captured a panoramic image of Mars that resembles an Earthly sunset. For over a decade, the Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for signs of past life. The rover took the ...

My pencil rests between my fingers, pressed into a worn callus formed from years of holding it the “wrong” way. I tap it anxiously against the scribbled page of my journal, my mind at a loss for words ...

How life begins remains an unsolved question. One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth’s mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades, defying reigning theories of how our planet came to be. In a new study ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Nov 20, 2025, 08:01am EST Nov 21, 2025, 11:53am EST Aerial view ...