Scientists have uncovered that the continental divide between South America and Africa 135 million years ago unleashed 16 ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

The split between South America and Africa 135 million years ago was a fiery affair, new research finds. The continental breakup spewed over 3.8 million cubic miles (16 million cubic kilometers) of ...

Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go?

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

A multidisciplinary synthesis of the Campi Flegrei, Italy volcanic setting highlights the importance of sub-caldera layering ...

Earth’s core could contain helium from the early solar system. The noble gas tucks into gaps in iron crystals under high pressure and temperature.

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

Preliminary analyses revealed distinct differences in density, structure, and chemical composition between the Chang'e 6 ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

The Chang'e 6 mission launched in early May 2024, landed in the vast South Pole-Aitken (SPA), and returned to Earth with 4 pounds ... and published in the journal Science found that sample ...