Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

This layer of the atmosphere is notoriously difficult to study, but new research sheds light on its mysterious processes.

The phenomenon has been happening for millions of years quietly beneath our feet and could shed new light on how the ...

Deep beneath California, a dramatic geological process is underway—one that could reshape the state’s landscape over millions ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud ...

Researchers say a collected sample is the longest continuous record of Earth ... 1.7 miles deep into Antarctica, pulling up an ice core sample that dates back at least 1.2 million years.

After four years of effort, researchers from the Beyond EPICA project reached the bedrock beneath the ice sheet at a depth of 2.8 kilometers (1.7 miles ... Each layer of ice corresponds to a specific ...

The Lunar New Year begins Jan. 29 in the Year of the Wood Snake. Here's everything you need you need to know about your ...

The ice, some of the oldest drilled on Earth, could provide ... was progressing through the ice layers. Each meter of ice can contain as many as 13,000 years of climate data, said Julien Westhoff ...