Analysis of Northwest Africa 16286 reveals it comes from underneath the Moon, where things were hot for longer than ...

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

Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name "Hadean" comes from the ...

Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

North Sea's giant sand mounds that perplexed scientists up until now have been found to be younger, denser sands that sank into older, lighter "ooze." ...

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

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

From the ongoing series of remarkable discoveries on Earth… NASA recently identified a peculiar white, glowing formation deep within one of the world’s most ...

The speed of Earth’s rotation on its axis is increasing. The result of the increasing speed of Earth’s rotation has come in ...

The strength of Earth’s magnetic field and the amount of oxygen in its atmosphere seem to be correlated—and scientists want to know why ...