A team of scientists from several U.S. institutions, including the University of Minnesota, discovered six million year old ...

Zealandia, considered a candidate for the Earth’s eighth continent, was mostly lost to the sea. Geologists say they’ve now ...

To author Anjana Khatwa, rocks are “storykeepers of time.” She blends science and spirituality to explore the origin story of our world.

Diamonds hitch a ride to Earth's surface inside a rare magma called kimberlite, but only if that magma stays buoyant.

A deep heat mass beneath the Appalachians appears to have started near a rift between Greenland and North America. Its slow southward journey reveals that ancient tectonic events still influence the ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for ...

An immense pocket of hot rock deep beneath the Appalachians may be a wandering relic of the breakup between Greenland and ...

Atoms found deep inside our planet argue that parts of “proto-Earth,” the early version of our planet, still survive inside the mantle.

An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

An international team of scientists and students, led by the Arctic University of Norway, and including chemists and ...

James Hutton's visit to Siccar Point in the 1780s led to a change in the way the history of the Earth is understood.