The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

Two diamonds formed 700 kilometers below the Earth's surface reveal a life-giving synchronicity between shifting continents ...

Japan experiences around 1,500 earthquakes that are strong enough to be felt every year, a staggering figure that would seem ...

Scientists have uncovered a previously unknown Martian rock containing a mineral never before found on the Red Planet.

Instead of focusing all its efforts on coordinating a widescale rescue operation, the Venezuelan government has been accused ...

The Earth as You’ve Never Seen It Imagine a world utterly different from the one you know. Hundreds of millions of years ago, ...

For over two decades, scientists argued about what really created a strange crater hidden beneath the North Sea. New evidence ...

While recently driving through the Arbuckle Mountains – at least in Oklahoma, we call them mountains – as so many times before, I was impressed by all the exposed geological ...

Every June 30th, Asteroid Day marks the anniversary of the 1908 Tunguska impact and turns global attention to the science of ...

Few places on the planet look less like Earth than the Danakil Depression, a scorched, sunken stretch of northeastern ...

New research led by the University of New England's Dr. Timothy Chapman has uncovered the trigger behind slow earthquakes, ...

Seattle angel investor Charles Fitzgerald argues that Gov.