An incredible effort has been made to map the mystery missing continent of Zealandia which was only recently discovered ...

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the point of Earth's axis of rotation.

A popular hiking hotspot in Scotland has been hit by three earthquakes in the space of just six hours, experts reveal.

A Polish scientist has proposed a radical solution to terraform Mars by smashing icy asteroids from the Kuiper Belt into the ...

A team of Earth scientists affiliated with Peking University and the Southern University of Science and Technology, both in ...

Despite its uniquely rich inventory of organic molecules, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may be able to support only a minuscule amount of biomass, if life exists on the moon, according to a study ...

Little of America’s energy comes from geothermal sources, but that could change quickly.

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Earth's magnetic field flips every 200,000 to 300,000 years on average, but it's been 780,000 years since the last one.

Some of the unusual rocks carry stories about water on Mars. One has hints of long-gone microbes. All tell of a dynamic, complex planet.

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

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