It was five years ago this month that ESA’s GOCE gravity-mapping satellite finally gave way to gravity, but its results are still yielding buried treasure – giving a new view of the remnants of lost ...

Continental drifts are how our world came to look the way that it does now. It’s no secret that over millions and millions of ...

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A chunk of land that broke off from Australia 155 million years ago seemed to have vanished. Seven years of research helped scientists trace the landmass back to Southeast Asia. It could help explain ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

The timing and rate of early crustal growth on Earth remains contentious due to the scarcity of very ancient rocks,” are ...

Ancient Australian rocks suggest Earth’s continents formed later than expected and share a common origin with the Moon.

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

Warped amphibian-like fossils in Ireland were likely transformed by superheated fluids that were released as ancient continents crashed into one another around 300 million years ago. When you purchase ...

Ancient zircon crystals hold chemical clues that of freshwater may have existed on Earth soon after it formed. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Pink diamonds, as well as the world's largest diamond mine, may have formed during the breakup of a supercontinent known as Nuna, claims a newly published article in the scientific journal Nature ...

Rivers may have operated on a global scale around 3.5 billion years ago. The new find comes courtesy of ancient rocks in China and South Africa. A change in rock chemistry around that time provides ...