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 ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause their eventual disintegration.

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

Chinese scientists have found abiotic organic compounds in the ocean crust, shedding light on deep-sea carbon cycles and life ...

Research on Titan has uncovered a significant layer of methane clathrate ice that explains its shallow craters and warm interior. This discovery offers new insights into Titan's methane-rich ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

A six-mile-thick crust of methane trapped in water ice could explain many of the saturnian moon's weird properties ...

A crust thicker than the surrounding oceanic ... How Many Continents Are There?: Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear ...

Kilometres below the ocean surface, they relentlessly belch out searing hot water rife with harsh chemicals from beneath Earth’s crust ... clams entirely new to science. It is hard to think ...

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