As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

New seismic images of the Lucky Strike slow-spreading segment of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge show thick lower crust at the center ...

If all goes to plan, scientists may someday begin building outposts on the moon — and some experts believe that these ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Io is an incredibly active and extreme place, with glistening lava lakes and volcanic eruptions shooting sulfur and magma to ...

The split between South America and Africa 135 million years ago was a fiery affair, new research finds. The continental breakup spewed over 3.8 million cubic miles (16 million cubic kilometers) of ...

The Perseverance rover has found some intriguing samples on the red planet. Here's what they might reveal about the origins ...

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

Studying it can inform our understanding of the Earth's past and our future ... It's not an exact science, which is why YR4's size was initially estimated at 40-90m (131-295ft) wide.

Trump’s tariffs put a spotlight on the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, which comprise a remote volcanic refuge for ...

The Guinness World Record for the oldest Earth rock is currently held by the Nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt, which is listed as ...