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 ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As ...