Westinghouse, the Pennsylvania-based nuclear developer, is discussing a plan to deploy 10 large-scale nuclear reactors with the US government.

For the longest time, human scientific exploration has been confined to the Earth’s outermost solid layer: the crust. This crust has an average thickness of about 9.3 miles (15 kilometers), though it ...

China has initiated a high-stakes mission, employing the Meng Xiang vessel to drill into the Earth's crust, aiming to reach ...

China is going full Jules Verne as it prepares to go where no drill has gone before. As part of its Deep Ocean Drilling ...

The moon may be silent and still today, but billions of years ago, it likely crackled with magnetic activity. Though the moon ...

Scientists have discovered the single largest repository of gold in the world that makes Fort Knox look like a piggy bank.

Since the 1960s, scientists have been intrigued by a mysterious seismic pulse occurring every 26 seconds. Originating in the ...

New research reveals that lithium-rich brines have a chemistry dominated by boron, fundamentally different from typical ...

For the first time, Antarctic krill have been found on seafloor vents. One scientist is working to figure out what they are ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has finally confirmed the theory that the cause of extraordinary global tremors in September - October 2023 was indeed two mega tsunamis in Greenland that ...

Beneath the Arctic’s frozen darkness, scientists have encountered rare black smokers in a place where they were never ...

In chaos terrains like Tara Regio, the presence of strange chemicals—including table salt and carbon dioxide—suggests that ...