It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

A ground-breaking discovery is sparking hope that geothermal energy at least five times more powerful than current wells ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause their eventual disintegration.

Earth’s solid outer layer, which includes the crust and the uppermost mantle ... a 2023 study in the journal Science suggests. Below the lithosphere is the asthenosphere — a viscous layer ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.

A six-mile-thick crust of methane trapped in water ice could explain many of the saturnian moon's weird properties ...

A new study, led by planetary scientists at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, revealed that methane gas may also be trapped within the ice, forming a distinct crust up to six miles thick ...

Kilometres below the ocean surface, they relentlessly belch out searing hot water rife with harsh chemicals from beneath Earth’s crust ... clams entirely new to science. It is hard to think ...

A new study has revealed that methane gas may be trapped within the icy surface of Saturn's moon Titan, forming a distinct crust up to ... School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST ...