In 2005, I was navigating winding roads through the Drakensberg Mountains, in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Towering cliff-like features known as...

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have made a fascinating discovery deep within the Earth’s core—a doughnut-shaped region...

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have made a fascinating discovery deep within the Earth’s core—a doughnut-shaped region...

Motion deep in the Earth called a mantle wave can lift up the toughest parts of our planet.

Around 140 million years ago, Africa and South America started to split. This caused Earth’s rifts to open with pre-existing weaknesses. As the...

About 2,890 kilometers beneath our feet lies a gigantic ball of liquid metal: our planet’s core. Scientists like me use the seismic waves created by...

About 5.5 million years ago, a dramatic event known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis drastically altered the Mediterranean Sea. This event, caused by...

On a remote patch of the windy, frozen Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California huddled...

Stockhead’s Break it Down delves into double Strike Energy discoveries which surpassed expectations from the deepest well ever drilled in onshore...

CNOOC Limited has drilled a natural gas well in the ultra-deepwater Liwan 4-1 structure in the Pearl River Mouth Basin. The well was tested to produce...