Scientists have made a perplexing discovery in Greenland’s ice sheet that challenges our understanding of the region’s ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Geologists discovered ancient rocks in Greenland that preserve the oldest known traces of Earth’s early magnetic field.

MIT scientists discover 4.5-billion-year-old proto-Earth remnants in ancient rocks, revealing our planet's mysterious ...

Recent scientific discoveries have challenged our understanding of the geology beneath the Himalayas, suggesting that a ...

the Earth you walk on today might not be the same planet that was born 4.5 billion years ago. Many scientists believe that in its infancy, Earth collided with another world the size of Mars, and that ...

Geologist Day, celebrated on the first Sunday in April each year since 1966, brings awareness to the critical work of scientists who study Earth and other planets' history, nature, materials and ...

Why it's incredible: The cave was created by lava from Mount Fuji and now holds giant ice pillars. The Narusawa Ice Cave is a lava tube that is brimming with icicles and ice pillars at the base of ...

New research reveals that nickel and urea once throttled Earth’s earliest oxygen producers, delaying the planet’s ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: In the final installment in our series on geothermal energy, its availability in the West and the implications ...