Geologists discovered "gigantic fortresses" under the Earth's crust, which have provided insight into the workings of the Earth's mantle.

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Lava planets don’t play by the rules of our solar system. These scorching-hot worlds, some no bigger than Earth, orbit so ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient human migration routes hidden beneath the sea, revealing how early humans moved between ...

Unravelling Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business.Case in point: the discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in the remote Pilbara region of ...

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

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...