Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

A reanalysis of paleomagnetic poles provides tighter bounds on the style and rate of motions of our whole planet with respect ...

Scientific American talked with Gabbott and Zalasiewicz, authors of the book Discarded: How Technofossils Will Be Our ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

New Curtin-led research has revealed that water played a far bigger role than previously thought in shaping Earth's first continents, transforming the planet's early crust and helping to build the ...

A team of archaeologists has uncovered evidence confirming that Les Coves Llongues, in the town of Zorita del Maestrazgo (Els ...

UNLV geoscientist Arya Udry shares what motivates her in studying space, her work on the Mars Perseverance mission, and the world of knowledge a meteorite can bring.

The Yellowstone region's Beartooth Mountains feature some of the most ancient rocks in North America — as old as 3.96 billion ...

Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the ...

Titan Mining will soon begin mining a large graphite deposit discovered on the Empire State Mine grounds in late 2023. It will be the only active graphite mine in the United States. Titan is in the ...

Can you smell what the Rock is writing? Dwayne Johnson is set to pen a true crime book about the Hawaiian mob alongside journalist Nick Bilton for Penguin Random House's Crown Publishing Group.

Coal seams have been recognized as a promising geological reservoir for lithium, and its enrichment is intimately correlated with the original coal-forming parent materials and sedimentary microfacies ...