Rare earth elements (REEs) are a group of 17 special metallic elements, including the 15 lanthanides (lanthanum, cerium, ...

About 240 miles long, Utah's Wasatch Fault stretches along the western edge of the Wasatch Mountains from southern Idaho to ...

Planetary scientists research the complex asteroid Vesta which may possess the same fundamental architecture as Earth such as ...

Scientists in the United States have 'blown the lid off' the Yellowstone supervolcano's mysterious underground reservoir of ...

Ford has thrown its hat into the high-stakes global contest to shake up the electric vehicle industry, unveiling a battery that in just a few years’ time—if it can be scaled up cheaply—would challenge ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

Indian tectonic plate is splitting beneath the Himalayas, revealing a dramatic twist in Earth's tectonic history, scientists ...

Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

The governor of one Indonesia’s poorest provinces said it would pause development of new geothermal energy projects on the ...