An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

The claim: Earth's oceans have no 'elevation features' and are in a 'container' A Facebook post shows an image of a string of islands in a calm expanse of ocean alongside a diagram of different ...

By integrating seismic data, mineral physics and geodynamic modeling, the study reconceived large low-shear velocity ...

Movement of the crust isn’t the only factor shaping Earth’s topography. Credit: Nachoman-au via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Movement of the crust isn’t the only factor shaping Earth’s topography.

A mong the hilly forests of southern China, scientists have discovered the largest modern meteorite impact crater on Earth. Dubbed the Jinlin crater, the giant pitted scar could become an invaluable ...

Something vast is lurking beneath our feet—so immense and anomalous that scientists are rethinking what qualifies as the ...

New research examines an unusual pocket of rock at the boundary layer with Earth's core, some three thousand kilometers beneath the surface. New research led by the University of Cambridge is the ...

The past 4.5 billion years have been an incredibly lonely period for the asteroid 101955 Bennu. A gigantic impact in the early days of the solar system smashed an ancient cosmic rock to pieces, ...

NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Don Pettit describe their photography skills snapping images of the Earth from the International Space Station. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...