A chunk of the Earth's crust is missing and scientists have discovered where it is ...

When a single worm was discovered in the depths of our planet's crust, it began an extraordinarily lucky series of events ...

(fotograzia/Moment/Getty Images) In the beginning, there was moosh. At the dawn of the Solar System, young Earth was little ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make that continental crust.” Johnson and his colleagues are now arguing that the ...

A new deep-sea probe witnessed the silent, violent magma flows that heal our planet’s scars.

Despite decades of effort, humans have only drilled 0.2% into Earth’s crust. Heat, pressure, and flowing rock make reaching ...

Earth, our home planet, is a world unlike any other. The third planet from the sun, Earth is the only place in the known ...

Bathymetry of the seafloor around the Southeast Indian Rift where two tectonic plates abruptly opened a portal to the magmatic underworld in April 2024. (Royer et al., Nature, 2026) Most of our planet ...

Earth’s outer shell suffered a catastrophic break on 6 February last year, when a major fault came to life in southern Turkey. The Anatolian peninsula suddenly lurched to the southwest by as much as ...

Earth’s tilt recently made headlines when scientists revealed it had deviated 31.5 inches. That data came from a June study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, that found human ...

A 245-foot sequence of ancient Martian rock appears to have formed from debris deposited by repeated asteroid impacts. Glassy ...

In 1970, Soviet scientists began drilling into the ground on the Kola Peninsula in the far northwest of the country, hoping ...