Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

The film explores the dynamic nature of Earth's crust, detailing how it has evolved over billions of years. Initially formed ...

The discovery of a massive crater formed by the impact of a meteorite more than 3.5 billion years ago is changing the way ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts that we may not know about, and the craters left behind might ...

A rocky stretch in Western Australia's Pilbara, near Earth's earliest-confirmed lifeforms, was hit by a meteorite about 3.5 ...

Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: a volcano scientist who does her work in the middle of the Pacific Ocean—at the ...

The City of Corpus Christi is continuing their work on water wells that could eventually add to our dwindling water source, ...

A University of Tokyo study suggests ancient eruptions enriched oceans with nutrients, causing brief oxygen spikes long ...

Giant glaciers scraped parts of the Earth's crust, releasing key minerals into the ocean millions of years ago, a study ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 ...

Researchers say they have found "unequivocal evidence" that a meteorite smashed into Earth 3.47 billion years ago, ...