Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Earth’s earliest crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, has long been thought to have lacked the complex chemical features ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new discovery that ...

A study published in Nature on 2 April reveals that Earth's first crust, formed about 4.5 billion years ago, probably had chemical features remarkably like today’s continental crust. This ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

An incredible effort has been made to map the mystery missing continent of Zealandia which was only recently discovered ...

The team's calculations showed the protocrust—Earth's earliest crust formed during the Hadean eon (4.5–4.0 billion years ago)—would naturally develop the same chemical signatures found in ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

Future missions to Venus could also supply additional data on the density and temperature of the planet's crust, which could ...