A ground-breaking discovery is sparking hope that geothermal energy at least five times more powerful than current wells ...

A large chunk of the Earth's crust is missing but scientists have now discovered where it is located. The world is constantly throwing puzzling questions at scientists, with new technology like space ...

Now, people are only just realising that there’s a massive ocean hidden under the Earth’s crust. It turns out there’s a huge ...

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

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life.

The existence of “Snowball Earth” is now widely accepted, but the idea ice coverage was universal is so extraordinary and ...

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

Earth’s solid outer layer, which includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, is called the lithosphere. It is between 36 and 87 miles (60 and 140 kilometers) thick, a 2023 study in the journal ...

The origin of life, and how to get to that very point, have been as mysterious as they are fascinating. It is one of the greatest questions that humans have att ...

Tullis, born in Swedesboro, New Jersey, is survived by her sisters Mary Conway and Ellen Shelton; her nieces, Jessie and Kit ...

"If life exists in Titan's ocean under the thick ice shell, any signs of life would need to be transported up Titan’s ice shell. This is more likely to occur if Titan's ice shell is warm and ...