Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million ...

About 700 million years ago, massive glaciers crept across the Earth’s surface toward an ice-covered sea, scraping the ground ...

Scientists reveal glaciers may have scraped away miles of Earth's crust during 'Snowball Earth,' erasing a billion years of ...

Researchers have discovered a 3.5-billion-year-old meteorite impact crater in Western Australia, providing new insights into ...

All the gold ever mined on Earth fits into a 23x23 meter cube—an astonishing fact about the world's limited gold supply.

Credit: The Book Worm/Alamy Evidence of ancient meteorite strikes on Earth is hard to come by, because the planet ...

Researchers found the world’s oldest impact crater in Western Australia. The crater was created by a massive meteorite impact ...

Fluid-rock interactions on ancient Mars may have produced abundant magnetic minerals that preserved unusually intense records ...

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The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified at a site in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia...