Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

Most of the fossils that we find in Earth's crust are preserved in sedimentary rock, where layers of mineral cover an ...

Ed Miliband has been urged to dispose of Britain’s nuclear waste by drilling boreholes up to five kilometres deep into the ...

A new study, led by planetary scientists at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, revealed that methane gas may also be trapped ...