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

In the state of Oregon, the Painted Hills offer a quieter but no less fascinating example of natural colour layering. The ...

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

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

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.

In the Afar Depression of East Africa, a remarkable geological transformation is unfolding, with scientists revealing that ...

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.