The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond ...

Is Earth's inner core solid or liquid? While the inner core is extremely hot, experts have known that it is solid for many ...

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

The Mariana Trench, located in the Pacific Ocean, is the deepest known part of the Earth's oceans, plunging nearly 36,000 ...

A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

In September 2023, a global seismic mystery began to unfold. Every 90 seconds, the Earth pulsed with a strange, low-frequency ...

There are some weather phenomena that are more surprising than others, but without a doubt, the eruption of lava in ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...