Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

These results suggest the existence of a process recycling marine carbon into Earth's mantle, which could contribute to ...

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s ...

A groundbreaking discovery in northern Quebec has confirmed the existence of Earth's oldest known rocks, dating back 4.16 ...

When the island of Santorini was rattled by thousands of small earthquakes earlier this year, many people were left mystified ...

The slightly warmer temperatures around the middle of the Earth melted the top layers of ice to form meltwater ponds that ...

Lava flows, near mile-thick glaciers and ice age floods layered and carved up this landscape.

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...