Scientists have made a perplexing discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet that challenges our understanding of the region’s ...

For decades, planetary seismology has run into a baffling enigma nearly 2,900 kilometers deep, right at the boundary between ...

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

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing ...

Recent scientific discoveries have challenged our understanding of the geology beneath the Himalayas, suggesting that a ...

the Earth you walk on today might not be the same planet that was born 4.5 billion years ago. Many scientists believe that in its infancy, Earth collided with another world the size of Mars, and that ...

Geologist Day, celebrated on the first Sunday in April each year since 1966, brings awareness to the critical work of scientists who study Earth and other planets' history, nature, materials and ...

The Barberton Makhonjwa Mountains in South Africa, dating 3.6 billion years, offer one of Earth's oldest, best-preserved ...

New research reveals that nickel and urea once throttled Earth’s earliest oxygen producers, delaying the planet’s ...