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

Thick clay deposits on Mars hint at long-lived lakes that may have sheltered early life - and preserved clues beneath layers ...

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

Scientists believe that gold and other precious metals are slowly leaking to the surface from Earth's core through Hawaiian ...

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 ...

Underneath our feet, deep down below the Earth’s crust and its other layers lies the core, or where the planet’s magnetic ...

A belt of volcanic rock along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada’s Quebec province has been confirmed as the oldest ...

Here’s the geological story behind Colorado’s breathtaking Garden of the Gods. About 300 million years ago, two giant pieces ...

Two different testing methods found that rocks from an area called the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northern Quebec date ...

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