The town gets its name from the district it sits in, which is home to half of the world’s supply of a group of metals known ...

Known as stratigraphic inversion, this discovery challenges our fundamental understanding of how Earth’s layers are formed. A ...

Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

At first glance, it might seem like an ordinary hunk of stone, but this particular rock is poised to fetch upwards of AU$6 ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Earth system scientists developed the planetary boundaries framework for measuring and tracking the stability and resilience ...

Then beneath that there's another layer called the mantle. And beneath that, is the Earth's core – over 6000km below the surface. Alice Right. But what's the Earth made of, Rob? Rob It's a good ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would ...

Pillars of hot rock appear to connect continental-size moving blobs at the bottom of Earth's mantle to giant volcanic eruptions at its surface.