Scientists discovered that volcanic eruptions in India’s Deccan Traps 66 million years ago released gases that altered ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

The End-Permian mass extinction killed an estimated 80% of life on Earth, but new research suggests that plants might have ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million years if we capture just 0.1 percent of it.

A swarm of earth tremors and fears of volcanic eruptions in January forced tens of thousands of people to move away from ...

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.

The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...

Etna is one of the world's most active "stratovolcanoes;" these are cone-shaped volcanoes, built up by alternating layers of lava and erupted rock ... eruption on February 13," NASA wrote on its Earth ...

A young man's brain turned into glass during Mount Vesuvius’ 79 AD eruption. Scientists now study how extreme heat preserved ...

“And the lavas did something that no other lava flows on Earth have done ... Rose says in the middle of the Keweenaw basalt is a middle layer of pegmatoids, a type of igneous rock with notably ...

Volcanoes are cracks in Earth's crust that ... Or the crust can crack open enough to let melted rock from the next layer of Earth, the mantle, rise to the surface. One place this happens is ...