Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower ...

In the dusty, rust-colored expanse of Gale Crater on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered a ghostly echo of a long-lost world. Etched into the rock are tiny undulations — ripples frozen in time, ...

Lee esta historia en español aquí. The near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago ...

A near-Earth object was likely ejected into space after an impact thousands of years ago. Now it could contribute new ...

A groundbreaking approach to ammonia synthesis harnesses geological processes, using natural heat and minerals to create ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The University at Buffalo Department of Geology is about much more than rocks and minerals. Its faculty and ...

Scientists have discovered a way to produce ammonia—a key ingredient in fertilizers—by harnessing the Earth’s heat and ...

Instead of relying on energy-hungry reactors to generate high temperatures and pressure, researchers are looking underground at Earth's natural heat and forces to cook up ammonia for fertilizer. In a ...

Thousands of mounds and hills in Mars' barren northern plains are full of clay minerals, providing evidence that the rocks ...

An exoplanet about 800 light-years away is spilling its guts into space, and new observations with the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, have let astronomers read the entrails, astronomers report ...

One of the shop’s most popular attractions is its selection of geodes. These unassuming round rocks hold a secret: crack them ...