October 21, 2015 Lost world locked in stone at Fossil Lake Over thousands of years, dead animals rained down into the muck deep below the surface of long-gone Fossil Lake.
October 21, 2015 'Mars rat' spied by NASA's Curiosity rover A photo from the Mast Camera on NASA’s Curiosity rover reveals the dusty orange, rock-strewn surface of the Red Planet -- and captured a dusty orange rodent hiding among the stones, starry-eyed enthusiasts claim
October 21, 2015 NASA rover to explore… Greenland NASA's newest rover won't be exploring another planet, but will take a look at part of our own.
October 21, 2015 'Nile river' discovered on Saturn moon Titan -- first river on another planet The Cassini Solstice mission has discovered what appears to be a miniature version* of the Nile River on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. The 400 kilometer (250 mile) long feature -- from 'headwaters' to a large sea -- is the longest extraterrestrial river ever to be discovered and imaged to such high resolution.
October 21, 2015 Google's phantom island may have 19th-century roots A Kiwi librarian may have discovered the origin of a nonexistent island that's been outfoxing cartographers for more than a century.
October 21, 2015 Did dinosaurs cavort in the Grand Canyon? The awe-inspiring Grand Canyon was probably carved about 70 million years ago, much earlier than thought, a provocative new study suggests -- so early that dinosaurs might have roamed near this natural wonder.
October 21, 2015 Lava Erupts at Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano Lava is streaming from an eruption north of Iceland's Bardarbunga volcano, the Icelandic Met Office has confirmed.
October 21, 2015 Where did Virginia's volcanoes come from? The youngest volcanoes on the East Coast share an unusual geological link with islands on the opposite side of the Atlantic Ocean, a new study reports.
October 21, 2015 'Shipwreck' is actually rare tar volcanoes Scientists searching for shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico found something a lot stranger last week: a pair of rare "tar volcanoes" spouting asphalt.
October 21, 2015 Scientist: Gold crystal 'too big to be real' is real It's a single gold crystal that "seemed almost too perfect and too big to be real," per a press release about it.
