There's something about enormous caverns that captures humanity's imagination, and Devils Hole in Death Valley National Park ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Scientists found rocks deep inside Earth's mantle that generate hydrogen and could reveal clues about deep energy and the ...

At 900 meters, the giant crater in southern China is three times larger than the previous Holocene recorder holder.

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Scientists have long wondered why Earth's overall makeup doesn't fully match the mix of materials found in ancient meteorites. One hypothesis has been that our proto-Earth (what the earliest stages of ...

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

USGS has unveiled its most detailed national geologic map, giving the public a free, interactive way to explore underground ...

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