Geologists recently dated the age of Watersmeet gneiss, a type of rock in the Upper Peninsula, as the oldest in the U.S. Here's what to know.

Smithsonian researchers trekked to a remote site in northern Canada to collect four-billion-year-old rock samples that could ...

Venus may not have Earth-style tectonic plates, but it’s far from geologically quiet. A new model shows its crust is ...

Chinese and Australian boffins ask what else could be slowing down seismic waves as they pass through the Red Planet? Mars ...

People are freaking out after seeing planet Earth from an especially unusual angle, with one complaining: 'This is scary'.

Unlike oil or coal, hydrogen doesn’t need to be burned. When used in fuel cells or combustion engines, its only emission is ...

RIMOUSKI, Que. — Mael Lavigne scored 17:59 into overtime as the Rimouski Oceanic beat the Shawinigan Cataractes 3-2 in Game 5 of their Quebec Maritime Junior Hockey League semifinal series.

Scientists have uncovered one of the most exciting geological discoveries of the decade – the long-lost Pontus tectonic plate. This ancient “mega plate,” which once spanned an astonishing 15 million ...

Researchers in a submersible could hardly believe their eyes, or their luck, when they saw a clearly active eruption along an ...

The boys club that comprises this year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame class also contains a female solo musician who has always been a striking presence: Cyndi Lauper. She's among the seven new ...

The profile reveals how the structure of the rock below our feet still preserves a record of how the continent developed. "The continental crust and the underlying mantle roots of the continent bear ...