A stunning new study is challenging the conventional wisdom about Earth’s continents. For years, we’ve been taught that Earth ...

Geologists visited the Kilauea volcano crater in Hawaii to collect lava samples. Officials from the United States Geological ...

An asteroid could hit Earth, but scientists are continuing to gather data to understand its trajectory and potential impact ...

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

This discovery was made possible through a groundbreaking technique that maps seismic waves traveling through the Earth's ...

Recent scientific discoveries reveal two extraordinary phenomena that could change our understanding of Earth's hydrology.

Unusual anomalies found deep within Earth's mantle Earth’s mantle holds hidden structures never seen before Researchers question the origin of unexpected mantle blobs ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation ...

"That's our dilemma," Thomas Schouten, a doctoral candidate at the ETH Zurich Geological Institute ... He also writes Live Science's weekly Earth from space series.

The authors also found evidence of w-shaped flood channels using seismic data and developed computer models to simulate how ...

Simulations of a potential impact by a hill-sized space rock event next century have revealed the rough ride humanity would be in for, hinting at what it'd take for us to survive such a catastrophe.