On Thursday, President Trump signed an executive order that aims to permit, for the first time, industrial mining of the ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian tectonic plate collided with the Arabian plate millions of years ago.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.