Researchers have modeled sea level changes on thousand-year timescales for the past 540 million years. These insights offer ...

New research suggests that the thousands of dams built over the past two centuries have caused the Earth's poles to drift ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

They're not actual spiders, of course, but rather strange geological features.

China’s smog reducing efforts improved public health - but may have accelerated global warming by reducing sunlight-reflecting aerosols.

Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

Researchers have recreated the tumultuous beginnings of Earth, simulating what the planet was like just after its formation 4 ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...