In a groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment, researchers from the University of Manchester have ...

Analysis of Northwest Africa 16286 reveals it comes from underneath the Moon, where things were hot for longer than ...

Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

North Sea's giant sand mounds that perplexed scientists up until now have been found to be younger, denser sands that sank into older, lighter "ooze." ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

A museum in Denver has found a fossil that is almost 70 million years old under its parking lot while running an unrelated ...

This is a scientifically and historically thrilling find for both the Museum and the larger Denver community,” said Dr. James ...