The history of Earth is written on the great tablets of tectonic plates. The motions of plates shaped land masses, formed ...

The formations in Zhangye Danxia, China, are created by sediment layers shaped over millions of years. Wind and erosion ...

Scientists have found the oldest direct evidence for tectonic motion on Earth by more than half a billion years ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...

Researchers studying Mars uncovered something unusual hiding inside ancient Martian rocks: a new form of matter we’ve never seen ...

Researchers have uncovered 3.5 billion-year-old evidence of tectonic plate movement, providing a dramatic shift in how we view Earth's early geological history.

The rocks didn’t look like much from the outside. Scattered across a remote stretch of western Australia called North Pole Dome, they were ancient, weathered, and largely ignored for the better part ...

There are worlds like hot Jupiters, gigantic and very hot, as well as ocean worlds and super-Earths with a rocky structure ...

Ground-penetrating radar reveals a long-lost river system hidden under the surface of Mars. (NASA/JPL/UCLA/UiO/ETH Zurich) ...

Before humanity sent satellites, telescopes, humans and weapons into space, Robert Goddard experimented with the first liquid ...

Saturday racing tips: Best bets for Newbury & Kelso - Horse racing correspondent Jonathan Doidge has picked out the best bets from competitive cards at Newbury and Kelso ...