The tiny town of Mount Ida is home to rock shops, you-dig quartz mines, and national forest trails.

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Sometimes the most extraordinary adventures are hiding right beneath your feet, and Lost River Caverns in Hellertown proves that Pennsylvania’s underground world is just as spectacular as anything ...

That’s Ballyhoo Curiosity Shop in Seattle, and it’s exactly the kind of wonderfully weird experience that makes you grateful to be alive in a world where such places exist. Every surface tells a story ...

The African continent is splitting along a triple junction of rifts that converge in Afar, Ethiopia. A new ocean may take millions of years to form, but that is giving scientists ample time to glean ...

After decades of debate, researchers say that they have found the clearest evidence yet for this rare form of carbon ...

A bright new lunar crater detected in spacecraft images shows that asteroid impacts continue to reshape the Moon’s surface today. The Moon’s familiar surface tells a story of both ancient violence and ...

In our solar system, Jupiter is the undisputed king. If you added more mass to Jupiter, it wouldn’t actually get much bigger ...

The discovery of a new tektite-strewn field in northeastern Brazil points to a large meteorite impact—but geologists have yet to find the crater.

Before humanity sent satellites, telescopes, humans and weapons into space, Robert Goddard experimented with the first liquid ...

Arizona's Meteor Crater remains 'the perfect natural laboratory' for studying what happens when meteors strike Earth, ...