A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

NASA's new Lunar Magnetotelluric Sounder, set to land on the Moon's surface in 2025, aims to revolutionize our understanding ...

Male polar bears can weigh up to 700 kilograms (1,540 pounds) and reach lengths of over three metres (10 feet). This makes them the largest land predators in the world, outmatching even grizzly bears.

Peering deep under California’s Sierra Nevada, Schulte-Pelkum and Kilb discovered new evidence of lithospheric foundering in ...

The Bungle Bungle Range in Western Australia is a collection of rock domes forged from ancient seabeds and flanked to the ...

The Netflix K-drama 'When the Stars Gossip' might have you asking questions about space travel, microgravity and what it's ...

Towering hundreds of feet high, the Californian redwoods are a stunning natural wonder. Aside from their size, there are some ...

The secret behind how the International Space Station remains in orbit can be traced all the way back to the genius of Sir ...

Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently than previously assumed. This indicates the presence of zones of rocks that ...

An unknown volcano erupted so explosively in 1831 that it cooled Earth’s climate ... peering back in time through the cores’ layers to examine sulfur isotopes, grains of ash and tiny volcanic ...

Tristan da Cunha is a group of islands in the South Atlantic that formed from the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana.

How grand is it? The massive gash in the Earth’s surface stretches 277 miles from east to west, measures 18 miles across at its widest point, and plunges around one mile from the rim to the ...