Discover the 25 strangest geological formations on Earth, from pink lakes to stone forests. Explore bizarre natural wonders ...

Rare earth elements like lanthanum, neodymium and dysprosium are used to build the electric motor in your car, the LED lights ...

In 1970, Soviet scientists began drilling into the ground on the Kola Peninsula in the far northwest of the country, hoping ...

Seismic waves have revealed that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau was dramatically transformed by the ...

Mountains often feel permanent. They stand above clouds, survive storms, and appear unchanged across generations.

Discover the world's quietest place at Microsoft's Building 87 anechoic chamber, designed with advanced soundproofing to ...

Western Australia’s Pilbara Craton is probably the last place you’d expect to learn anything about the role water played in shaping our planet. It’s one of the hottest places on Earth. The land is dry ...

Earth’s magnetic field is mainly generated by swirling liquid iron in the outer core, about 3,000 km beneath the surface. Like a bicycle dynamo, this moving metal generates electrical currents that ...

Can a container-sized plasma reactor compete with the century-old Haber-Bosch process to fix nitrogen from the air and turn it into green ammonia at industrially relevant cost? Faraday Earth thinks so ...

The Ice Memory Sanctuary was built to keep samples from glaciers frozen, preserving thousands of years of Earth's climate history for future scientists to study.

A new study challenges decades of geological thinking about what drives the world's most famous supervolcano. Researchers have found that Yellowstone may be fuelled not by a deep plume of rising rock, ...

For years, Mars has sat in an awkward middle ground, too geologically quiet to look like Earth. At the same time, it is too complex to be written off as a dead world of simple basalt.