Deep beneath the red soils of Western Australia, an ancient secret lay locked in stone. And through the stubborn durability ...

In recent years, science has unveiled some astonishing secrets—from what lurks inside black holes to the discovery of a vast ...

A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence ...

"Traditionally we've been taught the Earth has four main layers: the crust, the mantle, the outer core and the inner core," Australian National University geophysicist Joanne Stephenson explained in ...

A team of researchers has recently revealed new findings about Earth’s ancient crust. They studied 1.6-billion ... over what drives the slow transformation of basaltic rock into lighter, buoyant crust ...

Scientists are rethinking what we knew about a vanished ice sheet — and that could spell trouble for New York City.

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed something odd — a series of deep earthquakes that had occurred under the Sierra ...

Scientists have discovered evidence that the Earth's crust is peeling away beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountain range. After analyzing earthquake data and imaging deep rock formations ...

Silent Chernobyl made the Earth’s mantle move towards Aral Sea The Aral Sea, desiccated years back, has now bulged beneath the land The land is uplifting every year by 0.3 inches discovered by ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected signs of significant amounts of carbon dioxide locked within the Martian crust ... didn’t happen to Earth.” The new paper, “Carbonates Identified by the Curiosity ...

Culver’s locations on Earth Day, April 22, will support Living Lands & Waters ... Tennessee and Wisconsin will be donated to this cause. (Shaw Local File Photo) ROCK FALLS — Since opening its first ...

Schulte-Pelkum was already studying the Sierra Nevada’s peculiar rock ... Earth’s internal structure. The scientists found that in the central region of the mountain range, Earth’s crust ...