A meteorite, Northwest Africa 12264, is questioning the established timeline of our solar system's formation, suggesting ...

Rocky bodies called protoplanets were thought to have formed slightly earlier in the inner solar system than those beyond the ...

Pallasites come from differentiated asteroids, which are asteroids that have melted, allowing them to separate into a layered ...

A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions ...

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

Chemical fingerprints from volcanic rock offer hints of what’s happening in the mantle below the area where three rift zones ...

A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...