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.

I believe in cinema’s responsibility, and I’m committed to creating a project that fosters social awareness,” says Pere Vilà ...

Is Earth's inner core solid or liquid? While the inner core is extremely hot, experts have known that it is solid for many ...

The town gets its name from the district it sits in, which is home to half of the world’s supply of a group of metals known ...

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

There was a circle in Maria Burns' yard where grass wouldn't grow and trees died. She knew what it was: An old natural gas ...

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

Ancient oceans with phosphorus-rich waters may have supported some of Earth’s earliest microbial life, according to a new ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Data from oceans, ice and the air all point to the same thing: rising invisible heat. What experiments are working, and what kinds of trials do we need to stop?

Soil is the thin layer of material covering the earth’s surface and is formed from the weathering of rocks. It is made up mainly of mineral particles, organic materials, air, water and living ...