A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS), along ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The Hidden Chapter Finally Gets a Name A research team outlines how it identified and bestowed a moniker upon a previously ...

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms of the Milky Way over more than 4 billion years, according to new research.

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

A thin slice of the ancient rocks collected from Gakkel Ridge near the North Pole, photographed under a microscope and seen under cross-polarized light. Field width ~ 14mm. Credit: E. Cottrell, ...

From climate change to species loss and pollution, humans have etched their impact on Earth with such strength and permanence since the middle of the 20th century that a special team of scientists ...

The PRI has until Dec. 31, 2025 to raise $1 million or the only collections based national history museum between New York ...

Our planet does have a new travel buddy in the form of a tiny quasi-moon that will be with us for another 60 years.

The Fellowship did not begin the Quest in the Shire; nor did the Quest end in the darkest depths of Mordor. There was no trekking through the Mines of Moria, and the Plains of Rohan remain untrod, for ...

I had no intention of going into science. In my early teens, I wanted to be a jockey and was firmly convinced I would never weigh more than 100 pounds. I quickly exceeded that weight cap and switched ...