A buried wedge of stiff mantle rock might be the reason why the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau have stayed so high for ...

For the first time, scientists have tracked volcanic tremors beneath Oldoinyo Lengai, a bizarre volcano in northern Tanzania.

When a Mars-sized meteorite slammed into Earth billions of years ago, the impact completely reset any and all chemical ...

Hidden inside Vietnam’s Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park is Son Doong, the largest cave on Earth. It’s so vast that a Boeing ...

Earth's core cannot be made just of iron — it also appears to contain carbon. And our research suggests it may contain a bit of oxygen and possibly silicon as well. The iron-rich core at the centre of ...

NASA and the International Asteroid Warning Network have launched a global campaign to track comet 3I/ATLAS and strengthen ...

The 'stadium effect' only happens in earth's strongest storms. The Air Force captured some incredible pictures from the eye ...

In recent years, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has given us a close-up look at the sun. Among the probe's revelations was the presence of numerous kinks, or "switchbacks," in magnetic field lines in the ...