Study discovered that Chiron, a small icy world between Saturn and Uranus, is forming rings. This shows how small worlds ...

Researchers claim Earth's systems can be recovered with a stress on the use of renewable energy such as solar and wind ...

Earth's mantle is so gooey, it takes eons for material that has been displaced by the weight of ice sheets to flow back. And ...

For decades, geologists labeled a billion-year stretch of Earth’s history—from 1.8 to 0.8 billion years ago—as the “Boring Billion.” They assumed not much occurred during the time: mountain building ...

A n enormous area of the Earth’s crust has torn and slumped, dropping about 5 kilometers (3 miles). We’ve only just noticed ...

For the first time, scientists have observed how a subducting oceanic plate actively breaks apart into fragments, forming ...

When farmland is returned to the wild, it shows a striking ability to hold onto the carbon that built up in farm soils over ...