Chinese researchers have recently challenged the long-held belief that "all life depends on sunlight." In a study published ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust moved in relation to each other as early as 3.5 billion years ago ...

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

Two massive blobs beneath Africa and the Pacific—each taller than 90 Everests—may be remains of a lost planet. Hidden in ...

Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On February 20, 1943, Dionisio Pulido and his family were working in their ...

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

Canadian scientists found the oldest known rocks on Earth - dating back 4.16 billion years - shedding light on our planet’s earliest history.

Orogens record tectono-metamorphic processes that affected continental crust rocks at convergent plate boundaries. The roots of ancient orogens carry fundamental information on deep portions of the ...