How special is Earth? It's one of those questions that runs through all of science, and here's a version of it most people have neve...

Earth’s magnetic north pole is changing rapidly. First, it’s moving around quickly (for a geological feature, at least). Second, it seems to...

Scientists just found a massive 7,000 kilometer-long gravitational anomaly off the coast of Africa in data from a NASA satellite. The anomal...

The African continental plate is cracking and will probably get a new ocean. Geologists can see the cracks forming in real time but it has s...

China is investing in drilling, big time. The Chinese government recently completed a 10-kilometer borehole in the Tarim Basin, and has also...

According to multiple recently published studies, the U.S. is collapsing, not politically, but geologically. The continental plate of North ...