It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

For decades, helium has been produced with natural gas, generating huge carbon emissions. Now, geologists are looking for new ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

A rocky outcrop in a remote corner of northern Quebec appears serene in its eerie isolation on the eastern shore of Canada’s Hudson Bay. But over the past two decades, this exposed remnant of ancient ...

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Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds. This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously ...

University of Alberta geochemists have discovered a missing piece to one of the great mysteries of science—the origin of life ...

Scientists are observing a new ocean forming in Africa's Afar region, a unique geological hotspot. Early magnetic surveys ...

A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Scientists found 3.3 billion-year-old biosignatures in ancient meteorites and fossils—a billion years older than we thought ...

Two rare meteorites found in Antarctica two years ago are from a previously unknown, ancient asteroid with an outer layer or crust similar in composition to the crust of Earth’s continents, reports a ...

The moon is shrinking, and Earth is to blame for how the moon’s crust has cracked. Scientists reported the shrinkage in 2010, when researchers, led by Thomas R. Watters of the Smithsonian’s National ...