The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and ...

Geologists have discovered remnants of Earth’s mantle that have persisted for over 2.5 billion years. The ancient rocks were ...

Precambrian time covers the vast bulk of the Earth's history, starting with the planet's creation about 4.5 billion years ago ... which are marked by different layers of sedimentary rock.

Adopted 35 years ago, the Montreal Protocol remains a groundbreaking environmental agreement, credited with saving millions ...

In 2024, the ozone hole over the Antarctic showed a notable reduction in size, ranking as the seventh smallest since ...

When a meteorite with the mass of four Mount Everests hit Earth 3.2 billion years ago, it caused global chaos and provided an ...

The white band on top of them is where the sediments were altered by massive volcanism, as evidenced by the gray/black basalt ...

A newly found fault line with a rare slanted angle shows why an earthquake rattled New York City in April harder than its ...

Meteorite impacts helped create Earth’s oceans and continents. They sparked life’s evolution through changes in the ...

A hole in the atmosphere's ozone layer is the seventh-smallest since recovery began in 1992, the National Oceanic and ...

Lava that erupts from hotspots around the world seems to come from a similar ancestral magma, new research finds.

The ambitious mission won't actually look for life, but it should find out if the presumed ocean provides a habitable ...