Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

The Sun, our life-giving star, is slowly dying. In about 5 billion years, it will exhaust its fuel and transform into a red giant, altering the solar system forever. But long before that, the Sun’s ...

In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model.Image credit: Adapted from Zhao, ...

When the island of Santorini was rattled by thousands of small earthquakes earlier this year, many people were left mystified ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

These results suggest the existence of a process recycling marine carbon into Earth's mantle, which could contribute to ...

The huge column of hot rock, known as a mantle plume or a 'ghost plume', which rises from deep inside the earth beneath ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...

The Utah Office of Energy Development is poised to ink a contract to tap into a study for geothermal resources for ...