The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic ...

Strange cone-shaped rocks led scientists to the hidden remains of one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It could help us find fossil life on Mars.

A 400-mile-long chain of fossilized volcanoes discovered beneath southern China sheds new light on Earth’s ancient tectonic ...

Scientists have uncovered ancient human migration routes hidden beneath the sea, revealing how early humans moved between ...

Geologists discovered "gigantic fortresses" under the Earth's crust, which have provided insight into the workings of the ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our ...

Scientists thought this crater in Australia was the world’s oldest – but an independent analysis shows they might be off by 800 million years.

Scientists have uncovered submerged human cities and migration routes beneath the sea.

A bold new theory reimagines the NAA as a "Rayleigh–Taylor instability"—a geological term for when heavy, cold rock begins to ...

Unravelling Earth’s 4.5-billion-year history with rocks is tricky business. Case in point: the discovery of an ancient meteorite impact crater ... might have played a role in forming continental crust ...