Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ...

Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet aligned with the planet’s rotation axis. This is what makes a magnetic compass ...

New findings from NASA's Perseverance rover have revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks altered by subsurface ...

Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

Ancient marine extinctions, previously a mystery, are now linked to massive underwater volcanic eruptions in the Tethys Ocean. Rocks from Tibet, once the seafloor, reveal chemical signatures of these ...

The findings come in the background of data obtained by NASA’s Perseverance rover that revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks, altered by subsurface water in a Martian crater that ...

Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass ...

A study of the East African Rift reveals that ancient heating and dehydration can strengthen continental crust, reshaping how and where continents break apart.

Igneous rock (derived from the Latin word ignis meaning fire), or magmatic rock, is one of the three main rock types, the others being sedimentary and metamorphic. Igneous rock is formed through the ...

"Greenland is the world’s largest island. ... On most maps, Greenland looks enormous. That’s just a distortion caused by ...