In a remarkable turn of events, a temporary volcanic island formed and quickly vanished in the Caspian Sea. Captured by NASA ...

Scientists found a huge chain of old volcanoes under South China. This 400-mile-long arc formed 800 million years ago. It ...

Since the beginning of Earth's history, tiny particles of rock and metal from space have been hitting our planet. On clear ...

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill contained a provision to snatch the space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and relocate ...

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

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest — but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

Chang'e 6's samples from the lunar far side contain a record of ancient volcanism, magnetism and a mantle depleted in ...

With GPS increasingly vulnerable to tampering, planes need more reliable navigation systems. The magnetic pull in the Earth’s crust could offer a novel solution.

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

Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, may hold clues about how life could begin in places very different from Earth. According to new NASA research, tiny, cell-like bubbles called vesicles might form ...

Unravelling Earth's 4.5-billion-year history with ... might have played a role in forming continental crust in the Pilbara. More speculatively, the researchers also suggested it may have influenced ...