Scientists have found two new minerals that could trap huge amounts of water deep inside Earth, near the boundary between the mantle and the core.

Ancient rocks reveal water moved deep underground over three billion years ago. This process, called dripduction, occurred ...

Trump gave a ringing endorsement for the surveillance company Flock, despite it being deeply unpopular with Americans.

Although predicting the timing of seismic catastrophes remains tricky, these geophysicists’ algorithm could help communities ...

Scientists have four visions of Earth’s distant future, and each could dramatically alter temperatures, oceans, ecosystems ...

Sam Cornell says license plate readers can aid law enforcement, but clear public rules should govern how data is collected and used.

Placitas author Mary E. Carter explores ‘How on Earth Do We Speak?’ Vladem show about Japanese incarceration offers glimmers ...

Some 550 million years ago, the Earth looked very different to what it does today. The Southern Hemisphere was dominated by an enormous, single continent known as Gondwana. This continent was first ...

Ancient rocks from Western Australia suggest water was reaching deep inside Earth more than three billion years ago, long before modern plate tectonics may have fully developed. Researchers propose ...

Many of the Aleutian Islands rose at the same time, 5 to 7 million years ago. It was part of a geological event that showed ...

One of the central features of plate tectonics is the formation of new crust at mid-ocean ridges. Part of the spreading process that drives continents apart, it was arguably the discovery of these ...

(CNN) — Sub-Saharan Africa could split up in a few million years, and scientists believe they might be witnessing the early stages of this geological process. The split would occur along the Kafue ...