Earth’s rocky crust can sometimes seem like a drab, dull, and lifeless place (sorry, geologists, we know it’s more ...

Plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth’s crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought—and may be a big ...

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in regions of crustal ...

In some way which, as yet, we understand but vaguely, both igneous and denudational differentiation then combined in developing the earth's crust. We now find in the latter all those rocks which ...

Snowball Earth defines periods of our planet's history when ice spanned the globe, even reaching the equator. The ...

Sneak Peek on 'The Five': Marine vet Daniel Penny sits down with Judge Jeanine Pirro in first interview since being found not ...

A mineral grain from a meteorite preserved evidence that water was present on Mars 4.45 billion years ago, and it may have ...

That’s relevant for digging through the Earth, because when a hole is dug or drilled, the walls along the sides of the hole ...

"Artemis astronauts or robots in the south pole region may be able to closely study rocks from deep within the moon’s mantle ...

The Earth as we know it came into being around 4.5 billion years ago when gravity condensed a mass from the cloud of hot ...

Beneath our feet is an almost limitless source of energy, but while a few lucky locations have geothermal heat close to the surface, the rest of the world will need to dig a lot deeper. The ...

"The work of the Lithoprobe research community has shown that the processes that continue to shape the continent today have been active through more than three billion years of Earth’s history." The ...