A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...

Scientists drilled the deepest core yet, reaching near Earth's mantle, uncovering unique geological samples and offering new ...

Several structures, a.k.a. tectonic plates, seemed to be sitting there, untouched since the evolution of Earth billions of ...

A recent report estimates that New Mexico has the potential to produce substantial power from its geothermal resources. But ...

When astronauts land near the moon's south pole as part of NASA's Artemis program in a few years, they likely will find ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances (2025), scientists uncovered a fascinating and unusual process ...

Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...

The case for a newborn ocean on Saturn's moon Mimas continues to build.

Between 800,000 and 430,000 years ago, Earth went through a series of fairly gentle warm-ups that scientists are now calling “lukewarm interglacials. ” The air over Antarctica was chilly during these ...

Human water management contributes to sinking land across the globe, and it may also be responsible for an unexpected rise ...

Earth's climate has fluctuated between cold and warm periods for millions of years. During the so-called "lukewarm ...

A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit the Mindanao region in southern Philippines on Friday (October 10) morning, prompting ...