The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

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

A devastating meteorite strike over three billion years ago may have been just what early life needed to thrive. While it’s ...

Deep within Earth, there lies a mysterious layer called the D" layer ... within the bottom magma ocean would have created a unique chemical environment, fostering unexpected reactions between ...

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

Paleontologists in England discovered the existence of a new marine species that roamed the Earth before the dinosaurs and ...

The University of Hawaii astronomer’s interest in habitable worlds began at a geothermal field in Iceland, where she and a ...

Findings about the chemical makeup of cave systems can teach us about life in places humans have yet to reach.

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...

The Earth's interior is composed of four layers, three solid and one liquid—not magma but molten metal, nearly as hot as the surface of the sun. The deepest layer is a solid iron ball ...

The experiments run by Newman and colleagues were actually extensions of an experiment that humans have been unwittingly running with the Earth for nearly a century. Humans have been depleting the ...