Small icy moons may have hidden oceans that briefly boil under thick ice. Changing pressure inside these moons shapes their ...

Seafloor lava rubble stores far more carbon than solid rock, revealing a long-overlooked carbon sink shaping Earth’s climate over time.

Picture your sidewalk on a scorching summer day. You've probably seen how the concrete expands and contracts with temperature ...

Scientists have uncovered massive, dense rock structures deep beneath the western Pacific, challenging long-held theories ...

No one is exactly sure how the tectonic plates formed, but one theory posits that the were shattered from within by the ...

Deep inside Earth, far below the crust and oceans, lie vast hidden regions that many geophysicists suspect could have shaped ...

Earth, they're usually referring to the brief window between planetary formation and the moon-forming impact.

Deep beneath your feet, far beyond where any drill can reach, something strange is hiding. Two continent-sized blobs of rock sit just above Earth’s core, hot, dense and stubbornly different from ...

The tectonic plates under Africa and Asia are slowly drifting apart, as the Gulf of Suez that separates these two land masses ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden geological process where fragments of continents are slowly stripped from below and swept deep into the oceanic mantle, sparking volcanic activity in unexpected ...

A growing weak spot in the magnetic field surrounding the Earth could lead to satellite malfunction and even cause them to undergo full blackouts, scientists warned in a new study. The Earth’s complex ...