A fascinating new study has shaken up our understanding of Earth’s oceans. It reveals that around 15 million years ago, something remarkable happened beneath the surface of the planet: the Earth ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...

Sinkites reveal inverted subsurface structures and may affect carbon storage strategies. Their formation remains under active investigation. Scientists have identified hundreds of massive sand formati ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet some of these giant structures vanished deep into the mantle, hidden ...

Beryllium-10, a rare radioactive isotope produced by cosmic rays in the atmosphere, provides valuable insights into the Earth's geological history. A research team has discovered an unexpected ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) of South Africa, these microscopic ...

Federal scientists are launching an ambitious mapping project to hunt for what could be a mother lode of rare earth elements ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Scientists discovered three minerals that had previously never been found naturally occurring on Earth. According to two papers published in the Canadian Journal of Mineralogy ...

A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered ...

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

Since their formation billions of years ago, the oldest parts of the Earth's continental rocks have generated natural ...