Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from ...

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

Western Australia’s Pilbara Craton is probably the last place you’d expect to learn anything about the role water played in ...

In May 2018, the island of Mayotte, between Madagascar and Mozambique, began to experience a series of earthquakes that led ...

New observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope suggest that 55 Cancri e, a rocky exoplanet about 41 light-years away ...

A person standing on the largest volcano in the solar system would never know it. Olympus Mons rises 70,000 feet over Mars on ...

A retired school bus has found an exciting second life, transformed into a mobile science classroom where students can explore, experiment and learn. The Barnegat Township School District recently ...

Astronomers have caught what may be a rare cosmic catastrophe unfolding 11,000 light-years away. A seemingly ordinary sun-like star suddenly began flickering wildly, puzzling scientists until they ...

Few places on the planet look less like Earth than the Danakil Depression, a scorched, sunken stretch of northeastern ...

Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event ...

NASA's Curiosity rover found pure sulfur crystals inside a rock after backing over and accidentally crushing it on May 30, ...