Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the solar system was just getting started, a Mars-size protoplanet named Theia ...

The oldest lake in the world dates back about 25 million years and is also the world's deepest and most biologically diverse ...

Despite having been studied from every possible point of view and angle, the Earth will remain a mystery to most people. Studies of its structure are incomplete, especially after t ...

Deep beneath Earth’s surface, researchers have discovered an ancient seafloor buried for millions of years. This unexpected ...

From smartphones to wind turbines, rare earth elements (REEs) are an essential part of the hardware in many advanced ...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

Although one of the biggest concerns about AI is how much energy it gobbles up, Earth scientists say AI tools can supplement ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed. Primordial helium from the ...

US president Donald Trump has claimed a rare earth minerals deal with Ukraine - a crucial first step to achieving peace in the region - is back on after Volodymyr Zelensky sent him a letter ...

Earth is made out of different layers, and those layers get hotter and more pressurized the deeper you go. The first layer is the crust, a thin outer shell that extends about 18 miles (30 km ...

That hasn’t stopped them migrating somewhat, for example with the African LLVP moving south ... Each time, we find the Pacific LLVP to be enriched in subducted oceanic crust, implying that Earth's ...