Gathering minerals such as nickel, cobalt, manganese and lithium from the seabed could affect everything from sponges to ...

Geologists discovered "gigantic fortresses" under the Earth's crust, which have provided insight into the workings of the ...

This first glimpse of a fault in motion shows the potential for video to become a powerful new tool in seismology. With more strategic deployments, future earthquakes could be documented with similar ...

During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment the plate ...

A monumental discovery in Western Australia is set to change the global mining industry forever. With an iron deposit worth a ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

“What we’ve been trying to do is find a baby version of our Solar System somewhere else,” Merel van ’t Hoff, an astronomer at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, tells Nature’s Jenna Ahart.