In a nutshell Ancient “snowball Earth” glaciations acted as giant geological bulldozers, scraping deep into Earth’s crust and ...

About 700 million years ago, enormous glaciers flowed across the Earth's surface in powerful frozen rivers like "giant ice ...

On Feb. 24, 2014, scientists announced that a tiny zircon crystal from Australia, 4.4 billion years old, was confirmed to be ...

NASA has said Earth will likely be spared by a deadly Big Ben-sized asteroid and predicts it could smash into the Moon ...

Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Geology’s Theory of Everything continues successfully to defend its title. ■ Curious about the world? To enjoy our ...

Beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains, the crust is peeling away. This process, called lithospheric foundering, is nothing to worry about. In fact, it may be how the continents first formed.

TWO articles on isostasy by the late Prof. Joseph Barrell, which appeared in the American Journal of Science for October, 1919, contain what may be regarded as his mature views on the subject.

Explore the fascinating evolution of Mars atmosphere. Discover how it transformed, becoming trapped in its crust's clay ...

Brian Cox and Robin Ince slice deep into the lesser explored world beneath us. To join them on the journey from the crust to the core they are joined by seismologist Ana Ferreira, geologist Chris ...