Earth’s earliest crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, has long been thought to have lacked the complex chemical features ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

A recent study challenges previous geological assumptions, revealing that Earth's initial protocrust closely resembled the ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...