US fracking companies are increasingly sending their idle equipment overseas, finding new markets abroad as growth slows in the shale fields of Texas, New Mexico and elsewhere.

Continental Resources CEO Doug Lawler stated on Tuesday that Argentina's shale resource might be similar to the size of the Permian Basin in the United States.

Curiosity has been exploring a region filled with boxwork formations, which formed billions of years ago when water leaked through rock cracks.

In A Nutshell A key prehistoric fossil loaned out from an Australian museum in 1984 was missing for 40 years before being rediscovered mislabeled in a California university collection. What scientists ...

Argentina's shale oil resource could be similar in size to that of the Permian Basin, the top oilfield in the U.S., ...

Fuxing oilfield in the Sichuan Basin, the first shale oilfield in the country's southwestern region. [Photo/Sinopec] China has achieved a significant milestone in shale oil exploration with the ...

The extraction of gas and oil by fracking—large-scale fracturing of underground rocks by injecting water, sand and ...

The minerals involved in the fossilization of ancient life can have a dramatic effect on how that fossil turns out. They ...

The Kimberley region in the northwest corner of Western Australia is full of rugged ranges and gorges, and long stretches of ...

The stunning Saltwick Bay near Whitby offers fossils, historic shipwrecks including the Admiral Von Tromp, and breathtaking ...

It wasn’t long after Dr Laura Manenti landed in Sydney that she realised her new home was rather radioactive.