This 20-kilometer-thick anomaly isn’t tied to any known volcanic system and its mysterious origin could change Earth science ...

Mercury has long baffled astronomers because it defies much of what we know about planet formation. A new space mission ...

When Earth was a molten inferno, water may have been locked safely underground rather than lost to space. Researchers ...

Researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have experimentally demonstrated that the planet’s deep mantle could have acted as a massive reservoir ...

Chinese scientists have found evidence that Earth’s deep mantle stored vast amounts of water billions of years ago, reshaping ...

Far below the forests of New England and the skyscrapers of Manhattan, a vast pocket of overheated rock is slowly rising ...

On the frozen surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa, a strange, star-shaped scar has become an unlikely focal point in the search ...

Researchers from Yunnan University, the Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the ...

By analyzing the archival data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), an international team of ...

Mountain building occurred all around the Yellowstone region and highlights a tortured geological history of uplift and volcanism. The Gallatin Range, just northeast of Yellowstone Caldera, is an ...

Grand Canyon fossils in the Bright Angel formation reveal 500M-year-old animals with dual feeding structures, reshaping ...