In astronomy, there is a concept called "degeneracy." It has nothing to do with delinquent people, but instead is used to ...

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

Several hundred volcanoes lie dormant beneath the Eifel in western Germany. They are typical examples of what is known as ...

The Bermuda archipelago is actually resting on a 20-kilometer underplate that gives it enough lift to rise well above sea ...

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

Earth’s deep interior still shapes the world above your feet. Water trapped far below the surface helps control how rocks ...

Researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences have experimentally ...

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

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

The findings, published in the academic journal Science on Friday, reshape human understanding of how water is stored and ...

Where Volcanoes Are Born Most volcanoes form at the boundaries of Earth's tectonic plates, which are huge slabs of crust and upper mantle that fit together like puzzle pieces. Think of these plates as ...

Far out in the Atlantic, Bermuda rises from the ocean as if it’s breaking the rules of geology. It sits on a broad hump in ...