A hand stencil pressed onto a cave wall in Sulawesi, Indonesia, is now dated to at least 67,800 years ago, making it the ...

A sprawling network of low-elevation basins hidden beneath more than three kilometers of East Antarctic ice has been ...

Scientists have confirmed that a mysterious Utah earthquake first detected in 1979 really did occur nearly 90 kilometers ...

From Australia's remote deserts to the surface of Mars, geological mapping underpins how we understand landscapes, natural ...

Nearly 50 years ago, a puzzling earthquake beneath northern Utah jolted scientists' understanding of how Earth works. Now, ...

The continental collisions that created this narrow Mideast waterway endowed the region with its petrochemical riches—and created a chokepoint that can disrupt the global oil trade. The Strait of ...

New chemical evidence preserved in some of Earth’s oldest minerals is challenging long-held ideas about the planet’s earliest geological state. Analyses of ancient zircons suggest that parts of the ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core ...

All around the world, from the Red Sea to the deep ocean ridges of the Atlantic, lurk more than a dozen geological misfits. These scraps of continental crust are found in the middle of oceans, ...

Thirty years after Pizza Hut introduced stuffed crust, Domino's Pizza is introducing its own take on the now-classic menu item. Domino's worked on its own version for three years to make sure it got ...

Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from its star. From pole to equator, the sphere is covered in a thick crust of ice ...