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

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

At the time, the Earth's surface was hot enough to bake pizza, but rocks still solidified. Those in this area formed almost ...

Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

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

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

A study reveals that the oldest continental crust on Earth is slowly being broken up by shifting tectonic forces.

What would happen if you put a baseball-sized piece of neutron star on the Earth? Would it fall to the core of the Earth and ...

In 2008, researchers reported that these rocks dated back 4.3 billion years 2, a claim that other scientists contested. Work ...

A group of researchers from across the world has found that a steady, rhythmic pulse deep beneath Ethiopia’s Afar region, ...