At 4,000 miles long and 30–40 miles wide, the East African Rift (EAR) system is one of the geologic wonders of the world.

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

It's a place where few living things can survive in the water. Deep in the world's largest rainforest, there is a boiling ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

Reaching heights of around 620 miles (1,000km) these continent-sized “islands” of rock dwarf anything else found on our ...

Earth's biggest mountains, more than 100 times taller than Mount Everest, have been discovered on the boundary between Africa ...

A recent study published in Geophysical Research Letters provides new insights into the Martian dichotomy, a striking geological difference between Mars' northern and southern hemispheres. Using data ...

Scientists have discovered two mountains which reach heights of around 620 miles (1,000km), dwarfing anything else found on ...

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