Nearly 660 kilometers (410 miles) beneath Earth's surface lies one of the planet's most important internal boundaries. Known ...

A new global study is offering a clearer view of how some of the world’s most valuable mineral deposits form, tracing their ...

NASA-backed researchers identified how the Sun's thin tachocline layer stays stable, improving understanding of the magnetic ...

An artist's render of Mars. (Kevin M. Gill/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) For decades, our picture of Mars was of a dead desert world. Its magnetic field exists only in sparse patches. Its lakes and rivers have ...

Science has a funny way of humbling certainty. Most of us carry a mental picture of how Earth works that was assembled in school, reinforced by documentaries, and rarely questioned afterward. The ...

Seismic data from NASA’s InSight mission reveals a hidden compositional boundary inside Mars that matches what forms inside ...

Somewhere between your overflowing inbox and your third consecutive weekend of doing absolutely nothing fun, Barnwell State ...

Geoscientists at the University of Glasgow have helped reveal new evidence about the formation of one of the highest ...

Thirty million years separate the freezing of Antarctica from the glaciation of the Arctic, and for decades that gap made ...

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

In the 45°C heat of the midday April sun, I swing my sledgehammer into the terracotta-varnished lobes of pillow basalt ...