Scientists have uncovered new evidence that Earth's continents are continuously reworked deep beneath the surface, offering ...

The Global Positioning System works because satellites carry atomic clocks. Those satellites orbit high above Earth, where ...

Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...

South of India, the ocean surface slumps into one of Earth’s strangest depressions, a gravity hole so deep it has puzzled ...

Researchers found that ancient rocks beneath Canada are naturally generating and releasing hydrogen gas over long periods of ...

The liquid iron in Earth's outer core doesn't always behave as expected. When it changed direction in an unexplained way, ESA ...

Geologists cracked a 2-billion-year-old code buried deep in the Earth, and it's rewriting everything we thought we knew about ...

Called bernwoodite, it’s one of two new minerals Korolev and his adviser at the AMNH, Kate Kiseeva, and their colleagues ...

If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half ...

The Webb telescope has detected a dark, atmosphere-less rocky exoplanet that could shed light on how Earth-like worlds die.

The vast sea that vanished millions of years ago didn't just disappear quietly. New research shows it may have pushed up ...

Scientists found mantle-linked helium signatures in Zambia's Kafue Rift hot springs. The findings suggest the Southwest ...