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 ...

Earth may have a moon today because a nearby neighbor once crashed into us, a new analysis of Apollo samples and terrestrial ...

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 ...

How did life begin? An international team of researchers from Japan, Malaysia, the UK, and Germany suggest that the answer ...

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

Minister of Agriculture and Environment Tran Duc Thang confirmed today that Vietnam holds one of the world’s largest rare earth reserves, with deposits distributed across 21 provinces and cities.

Geologists have been given a “one-of-a-kind” window into Scotland’s geological past as they analyse core rock drilled from ...

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

Beneath the Pacific, a deep-sea robot uncovered a hidden world unlike anything scientists have seen—where volcanic heat and ...

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 ...