Forget what you learnt in elementary school geography, Earth apparently doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

No one ever thought the birth of the Rocky Mountains was a simple process, but we now know it was far more complex than even ...

Oxford reveals a geological “recipe” for finding clean natural hydrogen underground, which could lead to a CO2-free energy ...

Life in paradise can be hard. Paradise is a Greek word of Persian origin made famous by the Jewish bible: it comes from a mix of very different cultures. The word means a walled garden. The garden ...

So if you come expecting a crater with a rim, you will miss the point entirely.

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

The Acasta Gneiss is known as one of the oldest rocks on the Earth, estimated to be about 4 billion years old, located in the Canadian Shield and studied for its importance in understanding early ...

Earth scientists have uncovered an unexpected geological process linking continents and oceanic volcanoes. Beneath the Earth’s surface, fragments of continental roots appear to drift into the oceanic ...

Magmas erupting in arcs range in composition from MgO-rich basalt to MgO-poor rhyolite. This broad compositional range is due to the sequential crystallization and separation of minerals with ...