A series of groundbreaking discoveries are reshaping the way scientists understand Earth’s deep history, hinting at secrets ...

ETH Zurich scientists confirmed that solid rock flows deep inside Earth, solving a decades-old mystery about seismic waves.

Open a middle‑school Earth‑science book and you’ll see a tidy story: the North Atlantic split apart, Greenland sailed west ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

There appears to be a volcano near Jezero crater on Mars and the Perseverance rover might already have samples from it that ...

Volcanoes on Mars might be more widespread than previously thought, and this has an impact on the planet's past habitability.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

More than 514 million years ago, long before dinosaurs roamed Earth, sponge-like creatures called archaeocyathids were ...

The game-changing Vera C. Rubin Observatory will collect more astronomical data in its first year than all other telescopes ...

In a groundbreaking studypublished in Seismological Research Letters, Australian National University (ANU) scientists have ...

The nature and evolution of stars, galaxies, galaxy clusters, dark matter and dark energy—and our attempts to understand these things—allow us to pose the ultimate questions and reach for the ultimate ...

Mysterious seismic signals from massive North Atlantic storms are rippling through Earth’s core and surfacing in remote ...