New measurements suggest mysterious continent-sized masses in our planet’s lower mantle may be extremely stable features of ...

How's your knowledge of Earth's geology? Flat, round or global?

Peculiar bursts of energy called chorus waves have been detected in deep space far from our planet, suggesting they could ...

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging our ideas about our planet's inner workings. These unexpected regions of the Earth's innards appear ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

THE moon is just a chunk of the Earth and not mainly part of an ancient planet as previously thought, scientists claim.

In Earth's upper atmosphere, a fast-moving band of air called the jet stream blows with winds of more than 275 miles (442 km) ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

Scientists found winds on WASP-127b moving at 33,000 km/h. These are the fastest jetstream winds ever recorded on any planet ...