Sixty-six million years ago, the dinosaurs had a really bad day when a colossal asteroid impact spurred their extinction. But ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...

A recent study by geophysicists at Washington State University offers insight into how nutrients may reach the subsurface ...

This doesn’t mean Mars causes ice ages on its own. Orbital cycles are only part of the picture. Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, ...

Far below the surface of the western Pacific Ocean, scientists have uncovered a geological system that reshapes how you may ...

Soft sediments hidden beneath Greenland's ice could accelerate glacier flow, speeding up ice loss and future sea level rise.

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday signed an executive directive ordering the exploration of clean fuel alternatives in ...

Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

On Earth, deep-sea vents may have given rise to the planet’s first life. But nothing of the sort seems to be happening at the ...

Deep-sea sediment layers show rare microbial wrinkle structures that formed in environments far beyond the reach of sunlight. Dr. Rowan Martindale, a paleoecologist and geobiologist at the University ...