Samples of extremely small crystal clots, each polished to the thickness of a human hair or thinner, have revealed ...

Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...

The concept isn’t hypothetical. Tephra layers in Icelandic peat cores show that eruptions soared six-fold between 12,000 and ...

Earth's continents may look fixed on a globe, but they've been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years - and they still are. Our new ...

The impact that carved out the moon's huge South Pole-Aitken basin may explain the puzzling differences between the lunar ...

A giant rock from Mars and a Jurassic-era dinosaur skeleton are set to go under the hammer at Sotheby’s this week.

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

Scientists in Australia have identified a possible cause of gigantic volcanic eruptions - mysterious 'blobs' about 1,200 ...

Can lava flows be harnessed into structures that we could live and work in? -- Peter R., Eugene, Oregon To reach proposed ...

The more scientists study the Red Planet, the more they find unusual objects and patterns scattered across Mars' surface. As ...