During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment the plate ...

This first glimpse of a fault in motion shows the potential for video to become a powerful new tool in seismology. With more strategic deployments, future earthquakes could be documented with similar ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.

A monumental discovery in Western Australia is set to change the global mining industry forever. With an iron deposit worth a ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest — but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

A bold claim about Earth’s earliest known meteorite impact has been reevaluated after new evidence emerged from the Pilbara region of Western Australia. A site previously thought to host a 3.5-billion ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

Scientists have found microplastics speckling the waters of the Mariana Trench, known for being the deepest of any ocean trench, and at every level of the sea. The researchers published their ...

Unravelling Earth ’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business. Case in point: the discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in the remote Pilbara region of ...

The discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater was recently reported in Western Australia. But not everyone is convinced it is Earth’s oldest ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.