Where did all the water come from? Water, water everywhere. It covers 70 percent of Earth’s surface and earns it the nickname “the blue planet.” And yet… where did it come from? How is it so abundant ...

Scientists from Oxford University finally explain why some Moon rocks show intense ancient magnetism. Titanium-rich rocks caused brief bursts in the lunar magnetic field.

For years, scientists have puzzled over why Earth and Mars are missing certain key elements. Now, a fresh study suggests these ingredients weren’t missing from the start. Instead, they were likely ...

The phenomenon of the "Great Dissonance", where about a billion years are missing from the Earth's rocks, may finally be ...

The Silverpit crater mystery in the North Sea appears to have been solved. Scientists say it was formed by an asteroid 43 million years ago.

(Javier Zayas Photography/Moment/Getty Images) A new study may have solved a long-standing mystery about the Moon's magnetism: Why do lunar rocks brought back by the Apollo missions show evidence of ...

From waterfalls that seem to disappear into nowhere to blood-colored water, these places are shrouded in mystery—even if science can explain most of them.

A fiery mystery has puzzled geologists for decades: where did the lava fueling one of Earth’s largest volcanic events come from? A new study may finally have the answer. Scientists have long believed ...

A view of Earth from the Space Shuttle Discovery shows late afternoon sun on the Andes Mountains, with glare and heavy cloud illumination. One of the more counterintuitive explanations for how Earth ...

Experiments show how concentrations of rare earth elements, critical to the green energy transition, might be hiding in plain sight in iron-rich deposits around the world. When you purchase through ...

Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image of the Dickson Fjord in East Greenland. (Credit: Thomas Monahan.) (CN) — When the Earth started pulsing every 90 seconds in September 2023, scientists didn’t know ...