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

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

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

1. The North Pacific has a plastic trash problem that popularly goes by the name X. But contrary to what it suggests, the ...

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

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

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...

Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest ...

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