Scientists discovered that wrinkled rocks in Morocco were formed by deep sea microbes that survived without sunlight.

Even when Earth was locked in a global deep freeze, its climate may have kept moving. Ancient rocks reveal seasonal and decade scale cycles beneath the ice during Snowball Earth.

Big Four Mountain's mystery: 82-degree tilted rock layers defy geology's horizontal rule. There’s a basic rule in geology: Sedimentary rock layers build up horizontally. So how did the slabs of Big ...

Doug winds his way through the sculpted red rock formations of Utah and Arizona. In red rock country the Earth’s crust has been pushed up by the collision of two tectonic plates, lifting the land in ...

Far out in the Atlantic, Bermuda rises from the ocean as if it’s breaking the rules of geology. It sits on a broad hump in the seafloor, about 500 meters above the surrounding seafloor, yet its ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

Satellite image of Earth displayed the North American continent (top) and the South American continent (bottom). (Pixabay via Courthouse News) (CN) — After following a trail of crumbs left behind in ...

Scientists have discovered a new layer of partly molten rock under the Earth's crust that might help settle a long-standing debate about how tectonic plates move. The molten layer is located about 100 ...

One of the largest canyons in our Solar System carved its way through several layers of ancient volcanic eruption debris, a recent study reports. Valles Marineris is a titanic network of deep cracks ...