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Troops and equipment land on the shores of Sicily during the first day of the Allied invasion on July 10, 1943. Imperial War Museums Ro...

Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers snapped this photo from the International Space Station. (ESA/NASA) Mysterious Geologic Structure Seen From Sp...

From Nature News: A project to drill a 10-kilometre-deep hole in China will provide the best view yet of the turbulent Cretaceous period. Ja...

Searching Haroon, an artisanal miner, looks for emeralds deep inside the Hindu Kush. Matthieu Aikins The Treasure of the Safit Chir -- Po...

Ripe for the buzz saw (Image: Egner Photography/iStock) From New Scientist: Glaciers limit mountain height by stripping rock off the top – b...

This is an image of a sample of cratonic mantle root from Kimberley, South Africa. The rock consists of dark green olivine, whitish-green en...

Location of seismic velocity anomaly at a depth of 1,200 kilometers (746 miles) beneath Hawaiian Islands (outlines). Orange color indicates ...

A 500-metre-long crack opened up in just a few days in Afar, Ethiopia, in 2005 (Image: University of Rochester) From The New Scientist: A cr...

Photo: A copy made by John Collier in 1883 of his 1881 portrait of Charles Darwin. Darwin was a geologist too, say experts. Credit: Wikimed...

Ancient basalt vein, Greenland Credit: Michael A. Hamilton From Live Science: Imagine flipping a Frisbee in Quebec, Canada, and seeing it la...

Possibly the world's largest cave passage, Hang Son Doong was discovered in the heart of the Vietnamese jungle by a British caving team....

Erta Ale, the most active volcano in Ethiopia, is located in the Afar Region From The BBC: Earth scientist Dr Dougal Jerram, from Durham Uni...

From Scientific American: Whether it's natural gas drilling unleashing a mud volcano that has engulfed 12 Indonesian villages or the eru...

( Click To Enlarge ) Crystal forest: People clambering through the Cave of Crystals in Mexico wearing suits and backpacks of ice-cool air to...