Scientists drilled the deepest core yet, reaching near Earth's mantle, uncovering unique geological samples and offering new ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

Sperrylite is a tiny and rare mineral. However, Hannah Hughes and colleagues explain why often-overlooked sperrylite and its diverse platinum-group mineral siblings are critical for the green energy ...

Where Continents Pull Apart Iceland's unique position sits directly atop the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where the Eurasian and North ...

Rocks store information from long ago. For instance, their composition can reveal the environmental conditions during their ...

IN the middle of the last century much interest was shown in the problem of the genesis of igneous rocks, and especially in the manner of origin of diverse rock-types from a common stock or from a ...

The discoveries challenge the popular image of Yellowstone as a ticking time bomb with a single massive underground pool of molten rock.

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Mount Kangchenjunga, the highest point at 8,586 m, and Kuttanad in Kerala, the lowest point lying 2.2 m below sea level.

Rocks are having a moment, at least the ones "sold" at Anthropologie are. In the last few weeks, the clothing and home goods store been going viral over a prank that continues to spread across social ...

The USGS publishes a geological map that reveals the underground layers of the U.S. and supports environmental education and ...