The giant-impact hypothesis posits that billions of years ago a Mars-sized body named Theia collided with the early Earth.

A new study of decades worth of seismogram data shows that the surface of Earth’s iron and nickel core is more malleable than ...

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant ...

Experts hope the minerals they find via this method will “power green, renewable energy sources for a sustainable future.” ...

Scientists have discovered an ocean located beneath the Earth's crust that contains more water than all the surface oceans ...

Earthquakes are strong and sudden movements of the Earth's surface caused by shifts in the Earth's crust. They can change the ...

As NASA astronauts aim for landings in 2027, geologists find surprises in recently retrieved samples from the far ...

How did Earth transform from a hostile, acidic ocean world to one that nurtured life? Scientists at Yale and in Singapore ...

Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.

A new study out this week said that the Earth's inner core is less solid than previously thought. Scientists still have ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

A recent multi-institutional study spearheaded by NASA has revealed the most volcanic place we know of. The planet, coined L ...