Scientists have found a massive volume of water 1,000km inside of our planet, around a third way to Earth's core: "This water is much deeper than ever found before, at a third of the way to the edge of Earth's core."

San Francisco startup Petra says its new contactless thermal drilling robot can make steady progress through the hardest rock on Earth - stuff that would normally destroy drilling equipment - so quickly and cheaply that it could make a lot of underground infrastructure projects economically...

In a find unlike anything seen before, a piece of opal from the island of java in indonesia holds some remarkable cargo: a stunningly preserved insect that may be at least four to seven million years old. Previously, plenty of ancient insects have been found in amber, a gemstone made of fossilized tree resin.

Phoenix, Arizona nature photographer Zach Cooley recently captured a stunning photo of the full moon passing through North Windows Arch in Arches National Park in Utah that resembles a giant eye. Cooley planned an entire vacation mostly around the fact that the moonrise would align with this arch, and that he could get something resembling a spooky eye on the week of Halloween on October 28th, 2020.