Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

New research from Adelaide University suggests the power of the ancient Tethys Ocean might have shaped Central Asia's ...

Does Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, contain the conditions for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in ...

Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...

An international team's seafloor study revealed one reason why the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami were so devastating. The ...

The movement of tectonic plates may take millions of years, but in Northern Ethiopia, you can see it happen in real time. In ...

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in ...

An earthquake which struck near the Alaska-Yukon border last month has revealed a fault line hidden beneath ice, drawing ...

Analyst forecasts gold to reach $5,000, driven by investment demand and persistent structural inflation that undermines ...

Around 4.5 billion years ago a giant object around the size of Mars crashed into the proto-planet Earth, called Theia. This essentially redid the planet and created the Moon, but new research suggests ...