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

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

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

Discover Earth’s unique features—water, atmosphere, magnetic field, life-supporting climate, and 10 key facts about our home planet. Learn what makes Earth truly special.

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

Do you know which continent is known as the 'New Continent'? Zealandia is known as the new continent, also considered the 8th ...

Diamonds hitch a ride to Earth's surface inside a rare magma called kimberlite, but only if that magma stays buoyant.

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust ...

Scientists have uncovered massive, dense rock structures deep beneath the western Pacific, challenging long-held theories ...

Scientists found the first natural proof that underwater volcanoes make ammonia without biology, a reaction that may have ...

The new approach looks at the distribution of molecular fragments in material, allowing for broad surveys in degraded specimens ...

For decades, geologists have known that a huge portion of Earth’s earliest continental crust simply vanished from the rock record, as if someone had torn out the opening chapters of the planet’s ...