Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

Research on Titan has uncovered a significant layer of methane clathrate ice that explains its shallow craters and warm interior. This discovery offers new insights into Titan's methane-rich ...

A crust thicker than the surrounding oceanic ... How Many Continents Are There?: Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear ...

A new study, led by planetary scientists at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, revealed that methane gas may also be trapped ...

30 in The Planetary Science Journal, a University of Hawaii-led team modeled the potential for methane clathrate (a kind of methane-infused water ice) in the crust of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon.

The Earth is a complex system, and understanding the processes happening between the crust and the stratosphere is an ...

Recent research has identified that significant changes in the Earth's mantle composition began about 300 million years ago, ...