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

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The crater formed more than 3.5 billion years ago, making it the oldest ...

Analysis - A swarm of earth tremors and fears of volcanic eruptions in January forced tens of thousands of people to move ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

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

A video on X of people collecting marine fossils has apparently caused some confusion, as they are collecting their ancient ...

The conclusions have implications for the question of where life began, and whether our estimates of the timing are right.

“Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles” is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano ...

The findings, published in Geology, revealed that as they scraped deep into Earth’s ancient continental crust, they sent a ...

Accurate magnification of microbes on the surface of the rock material. Under the International Continental Scientific Drilling Program infrastructure, the Outokumpu project has also investigated the ...

New research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish. By chemically analyzing crystals in ...

Today we are witnessing rapid global sea level rise attributable mostly to climate change–driven melting of ice sheets and glaciers and thermal expansion of seawater. However, sea level change also ...