Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

Venus is often called Earth’s twin, but the two planets evolved into dramatically different worlds. Scientists believe the explanation may lie in the planet’s geology and the absence of key geographic ...

One fifth of the world’s oil and liquefied natural gas shipments typically pass through the narrow Strait of Hormuz on their ...

A new study argues that the Great Unconformity, one of geology’s most famous gaps, began far earlier than many researchers had proposed. Drawing on data from ancient rocks in North China, the paper ...

Just as geology created the conditions for human habitation in the Fertile Crescent, those same tectonic movements created the stage for today’s hydrocarbon-based conflicts.

A continental collision trapped oil within what is today Iran. The same collision explains why that oil is trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz now ...

Without the Moon, researchers say Earth could experience far more extreme climate shifts, unstable seasons and dramatically weaker tides - fundamentally altering life on the planet.

In 1986, Kihachiro Aratake was diving off the coast of Yonaguni when he spotted a giant structure 25 meters below the surface ...

The Moon - Earth’s closest celestial neighbour - is slowly shrinking as its interior cools, according to research by scientists studying lunar geology. While the process has been unfolding for ...

Zircon crystals have provided scientists with an invaluable tool for dating the Earth, revealing its true age to be around 4.54 billion years old.

A magnitude 4.1 earthquake in southern Iran has reignited online speculation that Tehran may be conducting underground ...

A team of scientists has investigated the so-called "Grand Canyon of the Atlantic": A huge underwater canyon extending 500 ...