China is set to venture where humanity has scarcely been before: beneath the Earth's crust, into its mantle. To achieve this ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified at a site in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia...

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

Curtin University researchers have discovered the world's oldest known meteorite impact crater, which could significantly ...

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 ...