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

The ground beneath North America is not as stable as it looks. Beneath cities, suburbs, and farmland, ancient fractures in ...

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

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

The Bermuda Triangle, an area of ocean between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda, continues to grab the world’s attention.

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

Sub-Saharan Africa could split up in a few million years, and scientists believe they might be witnessing the early stages of ...

The original story “ Mercury has a 10-mile-thick layer of diamonds under its surface ” is published in The Brighter Side of ...

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

Those scientists saved countless lives, but their forecast was more of an educated guess than it might have appeared. It was nothing like a weather forecast; they couldn’t say that on June 12, an ...

Japan’s government is taking on the challenge of mining critical minerals, including rare earths, from the seabed around Minamitorishima, a remote Japanese island in the Pacific, with an eye to ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny little minds. First, there was the discovery of a terrifying black hole ...