The leading explanation for all of these mysteries is known as the giant impact hypothesis. According to this story, when the ...

The oldest lake in the world dates back about 25 million years and is also the world's deepest and most biologically diverse ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

Scientists reveal glaciers may have scraped away miles of Earth's crust during 'Snowball Earth,' erasing a billion years of ...

From smartphones to wind turbines, rare earth elements (REEs) are an essential part of the hardware in many advanced ...

However, residual heat from the formation of Earth remains. Although the primordial heat has largely dissipated, another form of heat continues to warm the mantle and crust of the Earth.

Evidence of elevated volcanic activity indicate eruption of Alaska's Mount Spurr volcano could happen within weeks or months, ...

A CITY-KILLER asteroid could be hurtling towards Earth but going completely undetected, a space agency chief warned. Humanity ...