A massive amount of lead missing from the Earth’s crust may be hidden by the planet’s mantle's immense crushing power.

Recent studies reveal that sections of Earth's ancient crust, long thought to be stable, are now showing signs of breaking apart below the surface. Researchers are also uncovering a mysterious water ...

Supereruptions are extremely large volcanic eruptions that eject more than 1,000 cubic kilometers of magma, rock and ash.

Now, a new paper suggests that the Farallon plate is still making its presence felt far from the coasts, powering one of ...

Geoscientists have long relied on different forms of lead to understand Earth's geological history and how it was created ...

Called Gangtie Jiliang, the Chinese machine is designed to dig vertical shafts through solid rock at depths previously ...

Buried under an ordinary stretch of South African hillside lies a geological secret so vast it supplied nearly half of all ...

A research team from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) has developed a ...

One of the crew say they have seen "sights that no human has ever seen" after travelling beyond the far side of the Moon.

One particularly impressive image shows the Earth, half plunged into nighttime, peeking out from behind the cratered lunar ...

If NASA’s ambitious lunar exploration plans succeed, scientists will cover the moon with sensors—and find answers to several ...

A massive geological fracture running through East Africa is pulling the continent in two, and the process is moving faster ...