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

In 1970, Russian geologists drilled a nine-inch wide hole into the Kola Peninsula’s Baltic Shield — a part of Earth’s crust with rock well over a billion years old — and began digging as deep as they ...

The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and core- the Earth is made up of multiple intricate layers, each with ...

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

Earth has four primary layers: the crust, mantle, outer core, and inner core. The crust is a thin, solid layer upon which all life resides. Underneath it is the mantle, a hot, ...

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

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

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

If the U.S. could tap into just 2 percent of the geothermal power beneath Earth’s crust, it could supply more than 2,000 times our total annual energy consumption.

Chunks of Earth's primordial crust, or original crust, have been discovered deep underground in Australia. Rocks almost four-billion-years-old have been discovered near Collie, south or Perth, in ...