Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Scientists reveal glaciers may have scraped away miles of Earth's crust during 'Snowball Earth,' erasing a billion years of ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Earth may have cooled during a close encounter with dense star clouds. Interstellar dust from the Orion region might have ...

About 700 million years ago, massive glaciers crept across the Earth’s surface toward an ice-covered sea, scraping the ground ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath ...

It suggests that the world was previously hit by huge impacts that we may not know about, and the craters left behind might ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic ...

Previously, the Vredefort Dome had been the only dated impact structure. The 2 billion-year-old crater can be found in South ...

It was a respectable tenure, but the world’s oldest known meteorite site is no longer western Australia’s 2.2 ...

From smartphones to wind turbines, rare earth elements (REEs) are an essential part of the hardware in many advanced ...

Rare earth metals are making headlines as demand rises for products from smartphones to wind turbines, and as governments ...