When the plate boundary later moved farther south toward the modern Azores, the formation of the King’s Trough also came to a halt.” It’s a remarkable example of how activity deep within our planet’s ...

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet aligned with the planet’s rotation axis. This is what makes a magnetic compass ...

"You need so much water that we think these could be evidence of an ancient warmer and wetter climate where there was rain falling for millions of years." ...

Travertine is not only a geological wonder but also a popular building material. Its use dates back to ancient Rome, evident ...

Deep beneath the Earth's surface, in the pores and crevices of rock, live huge communities of microorganisms. They are invisible to the naked eye—yet they play a central role in the quality of our ...

A hidden “tear” beneath the continents may have been fueling oceanic volcanoes for millions of years, study reveals.

A massive blob deep under Hawaii seems to be solid and iron-rich, new research finds. This blob — scientifically known as a ...

Ancient marine extinctions, previously a mystery, are now linked to massive underwater volcanic eruptions in the Tethys Ocean. Rocks from Tibet, once the seafloor, reveal chemical signatures of these ...

Greenland is the world’s largest island. … On most maps, Greenland looks enormous. That’s just a distortion caused by ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has uncovered the most definitive signs yet of an ancient Martian shoreline. The discovery, found ...

Gold Fields is gearing up to re-start drilling at Great Southern Mining’s extensive Edinburgh Park project in north Queensland, chasing the kind of large-scale gold systems that built some of the ...