Despite what photos suggest, Earth is not perfectly round. Our home planet is actually a lumpy “oblate spheroid” that bulges ...

Recent findings have unveiled a startling reality: the Earth’s crust is showing signs of significant instability. From the land beneath Chicago’s urban infrastructure sinking at an alarming rate to ...

Why Does It Get Hotter the Deeper You Go? Miners have known this for ages, literally since ancient times: the further you dig ...

Scientists discovered a rock in Papua New Guinea that plunged more than 90 kilometers beneath Earth's surface, revealing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The slice you see cut out of the Earth reveals its core, depicted here in bright yellow. fhm/E+ via Getty Images Our Earth is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists have long linked these climate changes to fluctuations in atmospheric carbon dioxide. However, new research reveals the ...

NISAR, built jointly by NASA and India’s space agency and launched on Wednesday, will use radar to monitor tiny changes across our planet’s land and icy regions. By Kenneth Chang A new radar satellite ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Gold is a surprisingly common metal (it is more common than lead ...

Researchers have discovered a new gold-sulfur complex that sheds light on how gold deposits are formed. Gold in ore deposits associated with volcanoes around the Pacific Ring of Fire originates in ...

Hyperspectral remote sensing has transformed Earth observation by enabling material- and object-level identification based on diagnostic spectral ...