A team from the University of Tokyo, led by visiting researcher Gaku Nishiyama, realized that the instrument would be able to ...

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the tale.

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Unnamed government and industry sources confirmed that the Space Force may be looking at MILNET to replace the Transport ...

Plants and trees send their roots into the ground to soak up water and nutrients from the soil. Until now, scientists ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

WASHINGTON — The Department of the Air Force is reconsidering its procurement of satellites for a low Earth orbit military ...

The driving force behind this volcanic activity is believed to be the “Iceland Plume”—a deep, hot column of molten rock that ...

A new study has found that solar flares—sudden bursts of energy from stars—can trigger short-term weather changes on planets far beyond our solar system. The research, published in The Astronomical ...

Something unusual is happening deep within Earth’s mantle,around 1,700 miles below the surface, where seismic waves accelerate in a way that has left scientists scratching their heads for decades.

Google Earth is celebrating its 20th birthday with new historical Street View imagery, which has been a top-requested feature ...

Over a thousand miles from the surface, in Earth’s D” layer—right on the edge of the liquid metal outer core—there is a weird ...