A new study reveals how shifting ice shells on icy moons can cause dramatic pressure changes, sometimes enough to boil their hidden oceans. The outer planets of our Solar System are accompanied by ...

A mysterious substance found deep within the Earth is helping diamonds make a long journey to the surface.

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Zealandia, considered a candidate for the Earth’s eighth continent, was mostly lost to the sea. Geologists say they’ve now ...

To author Anjana Khatwa, rocks are “storykeepers of time.” She blends science and spirituality to explore the origin story of our world.

The fault was formed as part of the initial formation of Scotland hundreds of million years ago. | ITV National News ...

A deep heat mass beneath the Appalachians appears to have started near a rift between Greenland and North America. Its slow southward journey reveals that ancient tectonic events still influence the ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

Indore: A nautilus fossil from Australia, strands of mammoth hair, and a dinosaur egg fossil are amongst hundreds of ...

Layers of rock can tell the story of life on Earth, but only if you know when each chapter was written. For many dinosaur sites, that date has been little more than a rough guess.

It’s been more than half a century since humans last walked on the Moon, but we’re on the verge of doing so again.

An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and ...