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.

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

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently ... Now, people are only just ...

Scientists have calculated the Earth to be 4.54 billion years old, with an uncertainty of 50 million years on either side.

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

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

30 in The Planetary Science Journal, a University of Hawaii-led team modeled the potential for methane clathrate (a kind of methane-infused water ice) in the crust of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

The Earth is a complex system, and understanding the processes happening between the crust and the stratosphere is an ...

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