For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s ...

China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Scientists reveal glaciers may have scraped away miles of Earth's crust during 'Snowball Earth,' erasing a billion years of ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

Evidence of elevated volcanic activity indicate eruption of Alaska's Mount Spurr volcano could happen within weeks or months, ...

Researchers found the world’s oldest impact crater in Western Australia. The crater was created by a massive meteorite impact ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

Credit: The Book Worm/Alamy Evidence of ancient meteorite strikes on Earth is hard to come by, because the planet ...

Mount Spurr, located about 75 miles West of Anchorage, has been acting up in recent weeks, prompting officials at the U.S.

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ...