Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...
About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as "the hobbit ...
Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.
The formation of a sixth ocean, and the tectonic shifts that lie ahead, are proof that Earth is a dynamic, ever-evolving ...
Recent research shows that, over 200 million years ago, Greece was part of a lost continent scientists referred to as ...
Scientists have uncovered massive, dense rock structures deep beneath the western Pacific, challenging long-held theories ...
New insights into a pair of colossal, continent-sized structures 1,800 miles beneath the Earth’s surface have revealed clues ...
Something vast is lurking beneath our feet—so immense and anomalous that scientists are rethinking what qualifies as the tallest “mountains” on Earth. A new study published in Nature reveals the ...
Olivine cumulate from the Weltevreden Formation showing that although these cumulates are significantly altered, they still contain preserved unaltered olivine cores (microscopic image taken in ...
Current theories suggest the early Earth formed a mantle billions of years ago from a massive magma ocean, separating more concentrated from less concentrated material over time, not unlike “frozen ...
The new research hints that long after continents rift apart, instabilities in the mantle created by the breakups continue to eat away at the bases of continents, peeling off crust and feeding ocean ...