Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

This week delegates from more than 150 countries are meeting in Jamaica - on the agenda, deciding whether to allow commercial mining of the ocean floor. Rocks on the seabed could provide materials ...

Canadian researchers said they'd found the world's oldest rocks in northern Quebec. The find was controversial. But after more than a decade of hard work, they believe they've really proven it and are ...

The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote ...

Podcast: The ocean floor is littered with valuable minerals. ... Probably not. I knew they thought these rocks were important because I think they found, like, fossil remains in these rocks.

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

Geoscientists drilled more than 1 kilometer below the ocean's floor to collect an unprecedented amount of rock from the Earth's mantle. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest cap ...

Along certain parts of the ocean floor lies a bounty of rare minerals and metals, critical components for batteries, electric cars and other electronics. But mining for them in the deep sea is a ...

The ocean floor has billions of tons of rocks filled with important rare metals used for green technology. But a growing list of countries and corporations are calling for a moratorium on deep-sea ...

NASA had a pretty good idea of where the space rock impacted the ocean, but actually finding any debris was still a long shot. Now it’s beginning to look like the expedition has paid off .

Nature They lifted a rock on the ocean floor—what they found was alive and massive. Scientists uncover a hidden underwater cave system teeming with giant creatures unlike anything we’ve seen ...

Deeper in the ocean, the floor (beneath sand and sediment) is made up almost completely of mafic oceanic crust, mainly basalt and gabbro. Basalt (and other igneous rocks) is formed when molten ...