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

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

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

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of the planets magnetic field. Data from the European Space Agency's Swarm ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

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

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

There are some weather phenomena that are more surprising than others, but without a doubt, the eruption of lava in ...

Scientists have identified a 4.16-billion-year-old rock formation in northern Quebec, potentially the oldest known fragment of Earth's crust. This discovery pushes back the timeline of Earth's known ...

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