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

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 ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a fascinating world that is unique among moons of the outer solar system. It's shrouded in a ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

Zealandia is a geological outlier. It is by far the largest submerged continent and also the smallest recognized continent ...

A giant crack is ripping through East Africa, reshaping the continent’s future in ways few imagined. Scientists have spotted signs of something far more dramatic beneath the surface.

As an ice sheet thousands of feet thick began its final crawling retreat from North America to the Arctic toward the end of ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...

Scientists have predicted that Earth will undergo a mass extinction in 250 million years, with extreme heat and rising CO2 ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...