Geology is full of detective stories about the Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico ...

One lucky bidder will soon fork over millions of dollars to take home NWA 16788, a 54-pound (24-kilogram) Martian meteorite.

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

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

Geology is full of detective stories about Earth's history, and a new paper in Geology by University of New Mexico ...

The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or ...

New research traces the origins of Earth’s most powerful volcanic eruptions to mysterious continent-sized structures deep ...

Discover the Grand Canyon: a vast, colorful, and layered natural wonder in northern Arizona. Explore its history, geography, ...

Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff ...

Fossils from Earth’s biggest extinction reveal forest collapse triggered runaway warming - offering a warning for today’s ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

They reveal that the chemical composition of the deep mantle has remained almost intact since the Earth's formation 4.5 ...