New images of the earth's interior show that slabs of surface rock sink to the bottom of the core

Most fossils, repositories of early life on Earth, may not be fossils at all. Existing evolutionary theories stand to lose ground

Life forms have been found even inside the Earth s crust, a region previously thought to be barren

Rocks 3.85 billion year old show that battered by meteors and supposedly sterile, ancient Earth still harboured life forms

Tectonic plates on the Pacific Ocean floor are drifting apart faster than expected

Volcanic eruptions normally release molten lava, water vapour and hot gases. But the Galeras volcano in Colombia is one with a difference. It spits out gold dissolved in its dense mix of gases; this

Yet another addition to the fleet of satellites peering down on earth is Japan's Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (adeos). Bristling with sensors for measuring everything from stratospheric ozone

Antarctica, which till 1960 was

For the first time, scientists beheld the unusual phenomenon of the birth of an island from an undersea volcano in the Pacific ocean off Hawaii

Geologists in the US have discovered that earthquakes can also occur slowly causing minimal damage