Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

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

Explore Earth's highest and lowest points—from Mount Everest and the Dead Sea to Challenger Deep. Discover how these extremes ...

The Geological Survey of India is sending a team to Baratang Island to investigate the recent October 2 eruption of India's ...

When astronauts returned from NASA's final Apollo moon mission in 1972, some of the samples they collected were sealed and ...

Millions of years ago, the Red Sea vanished, becoming a vast salt desert for 100,000 years. Around 6.2 million years ago, a ...

The Beemerville Volcano gets its name from a section of Wantage, but also is known as Rutan Hill. Space Farms Zoo and Museum, ...

Scientists have uncovered colossal 117-million-year-old structures deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, offering a glimpse into ...

There has been much debate among scientists about whether an area deep within the Earth is dry as a rock or sloshing with ...

Some fifty million years ago tectonic plates crashed and the Himalayas were pushed upwards. The seabed transformed into still ...

What can sulfur in the Moon’s mantle teach scientists about the Moon’s formation and evolution? This is what a recent study published in the Jo | Space ...

The Red Sea became a desert about 6.2 million years ago, before a massive flood from the Indian Ocean turned it into a ...