Key Takeaways on Earth's Inner Core Earth's inner core is solid and blistering hot. For decades, scientists have known ...

Usually, geologic layers build on one another, with younger rocks piling on top of older ones. A new study, however, shows ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...

The partial vertebra appeared inside a 2.5-inch-diameter column of rock that researchers drilled, earning the title of the ...

A museum in Denver has found a fossil that is almost 70 million years old under its parking lot while running an unrelated ...

In the 1997 action film "Dante's Peak," Pierce Brosnan plays the role of a volcanologist sent to investigate seismic activity ...

Beneath Ethiopia, the Earth’s mantle is pulsing like a slow, steady heartbeat, slowly tearing Africa apart and laying the ...

Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts. One such event contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 ...

Researchers from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Columbia University ...