Did Mars once have a full magnetic field in its ancient past like Earth does today, or was it lopsided and only covered ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first continents, transforming the planet's early crust and helping to build the ...

The temblor was detected near Julian, California. There were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries.

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

Deep beneath the mountains of the Himalayas, something remarkable is taking place. The vast, rocky plate supporting India, ...

Chinese scientists analyzing samples from the Moon’s farside have uncovered that its mantle holds significantly less water ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers from ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to ...