Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

The ocean was most likely green, and it might not have been blue forever. Japanese scientists from Nagoya University first ...

One thing geology teaches us about is the existence of another monumental event in the history of Earth, 2.4 billion years ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

A team of researchers at the University of Oxford have uncovered crucial evidence for the origin of water on Earth. Using a ...

Learn about Mars' defunct magnetic field, which may have sustained life on the planet and covered only its southern ...

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

Water is at the center of one of the enduring questions about how life first formed on Earthr. More specifically, where did ...

Microbes - alive and thriving -- have been found sealed within a fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock beneath Earth's surface.

The planet Earth thawed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. The Moon was created when a Mars-sized object crashed. If there ...