Subduction zones can look permanent on a map. They run for hundreds or thousands of miles, haul oceanic crust into the mantle ...

Unusual patches of black Amazonian soil rich in nutrients known as "dark earth," which rapidly accelerates plant growth, ...

This is an annotated close-up of three holes NASA’s Curiosity drilled into Martian rock at a location nicknamed “Mary Anning” ...

Baubek Oralmagambetov also congratulated Russia and its state-run space corporation Roscosmos on the successful launch ...

Understanding why some faults lock up while others rupture could help scientists better understand the most dangerous areas ...

Trial and error is part of any science experiment, but for a group of Ohio middle schoolers, the process is taking them far ...

Not everyone gets a chance to put on a space suit, but you can still be an important part of NASA’s human space exploration ...

Australia will fly its first zero-gravity scientific research team on a large crewed parabolic flight in October this year, ...

Scientists have, for the first time, clearly captured a subduction zone in the act of breaking apart. These zones form where one tectonic plate sinks ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

The farthest spacecraft from Earth has shut down another instrument in the hopes of buying time for an upgrade that could ...