This oxygen source likely predated photosynthesis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Powerful earthquakes that shook Earth some 3.8 ...

Deep beneath our feet, far beyond the reach of any drill, new research suggests that Earth’s center is far more intricate ...

In recent research published by myself and my colleague Tony Yeates in the journal Tectonophysics, we investigate what we believe – based on many years of experience in asteroid impact research – is ...

Researchers are exploring the idea that one hemisphere of Earth, dominated by the Pacific Ocean, is losing internal heat faster than the continental s ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history. Our history. Research shows there are little-known ...

Earth's middle layer is chunky, like peanuts in a sea of caramel. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In Geology 101, Earth's ...

In recent years, a large group of geologists has gathered enough evidence to support the recognition of an eighth. It’s ...

China is excavating a 10,000-meter-deep well in the expanse of the Taklamakan Desert to serve as a research laboratory for ...

“To see a world in a grain of sand,” the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an oft-used phrase that also captures some of what geologists do. We observe the composition of mineral ...

Earth Scientists at Cambridge University have analyzed rock and crystal samples from magma that was extruded in the pre-historic Borgarhraun eruption in Iceland and found that the magma body reached ...

China begins drilling a six-mile-deep scientific well named Shendi Take 1 to explore the depths of the Earth and its secrets.