The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

The oldest lake in the world dates back about 25 million years and is also the world's deepest and most biologically diverse ...

Fluid-rock interactions on ancient Mars may have produced abundant magnetic minerals that preserved unusually intense records ...

Water once existed in abundance of at the surface of Mars. How much of that water has been stored in the planet's crust is still unclear, according to a new analysis.

More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its ...

Located in Bolivia’s Altiplano region, near the Chile border, Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat. It’s a surreal ...

Newly recovered satellite data reveals a lost continent beneath Antarctica, shedding light on Earth’s ancient geological past.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said on its website it had detected the quake around 10:26am PT (1:30pm ET) near Bombay Beach ...

Surveying and mapping are providing insights into some of the underwater risks facing New Zealand from landslides and ...

The Blue Ghost spacecraft, named for a species of firefly, took eclipse chasing to new heights. Not only did it see the Earth block the Sun from an unexplored location on the Moon, but the lander fell ...