Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic ...

A 400-mile-long chain of fossilized volcanoes discovered beneath southern China sheds new light on Earth’s ancient tectonic ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

Scientists have uncovered ancient human migration routes hidden beneath the sea, revealing how early humans moved between ...

Lava planets don’t play by the rules of our solar system. These scorching-hot worlds, some no bigger than Earth, orbit so ...

Geologists discovered "gigantic fortresses" under the Earth's crust, which have provided insight into the workings of the ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

A bold new theory reimagines the NAA as a "Rayleigh–Taylor instability"—a geological term for when heavy, cold rock begins to ...

Scientists have been able to recreate the extreme conditions found on icy moons in deep space - and revealed the unstable ...