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

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

A critically endangered fox, called "one of the rarest mammals in the world," was recently caught on camera by a Northern ...

These results suggest the existence of a process recycling marine carbon into Earth's mantle, which could contribute to regulating the global carbon cycle and maintaining conditions favorable for life ...

The Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it. Now, if you’re a geologist, ...

While rare, Redding does get earthquakes strong enough for us to feel. Here's why Shasta and Siskiyou counties and the north ...

That might sound like hair-splitting, but when you’re talking about the first 500 million years of Earth’s 4.6 billion-year existence, even a few hundred million years matter. Researchers believe the ...

Roughly 35 million years ago, a massive asteroid slammed into the Atlantic Ocean near what’s now the East Coast. The impact ...