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

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

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

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

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

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...

The latest issue of the University of Wyoming’s only peer-reviewed scientific journal, Rocky Mountain Geology, features an ...

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

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by ...

Ancient trackways in seabed mud show animals moved purposefully 10 million years before the Cambrian Explosion.