Nearly three-fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space. But Japanese ...

It will lead to more purple, brown, or green hues in coastal or stratified areas, with less deep blue color in water as ...

NASA's James Webb Telescope has been investigating the first-ever case of a star caught swallowing a planet —and, in classic ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

Convection processes beneath Venus' scorched surface may help explain the planet's many volcanoes, a new study reports.

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

A strange rock covered in tiny spheres may hold secrets to Mars’ watery — or fiery — past.

The planet Earth thawed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. The Moon was created when a Mars-sized object crashed. If there ...

Until now, it’s been very hard for scientists to establish a detailed timeline of the early evolution of bacteria.

Carbon-rich water sinks deep underground, locking away CO2 where it can’t harm the climate anymore, even during earthquakes.

Researchers using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) have mapped the geology of the Mona Rift and made some astonishing ...

The reason Earth ... As a geology undergraduate student, I was taught about the importance of a type of rock deposit known as the banded iron formation in recording the planet’s history.