The D" layer, some 2,700 kilometers (nearly 1,700 miles) below our feet, has been mystifying scientists for decades. Now we ...

Seventy percent of meteorites that hit Earth today can be traced back to only three families of asteroids a finding that overturns decades of hypotheses regarding the randomness of cosmic rubble and ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

ETH Zurich scientists confirmed that solid rock flows deep inside Earth, solving a decades-old mystery about seismic waves.

Mars, the enigmatic Red Planet, has long captivated humanity with its stark, seemingly barren landscape. Today, it’s a cold, ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

Volta Metals Ltd. (CSE: VLTA) (FSE: D0W) ("Volta" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that, further to the Company's ...

Rocks from the time of Snowball Earth contained older minerals, but also featured a ... Mindy Weisberger is a science writer and media producer whose work has appeared in Live Science, Scientific ...

Earth has gone through many geologic phases, but it did have one striking period of stasis: Our planet experienced a tropical environment where algae and single-celled organisms flourished for ...

Members of the Perseverance science ... rocks' mineral content, scientists believe the samples are their best chance of finding signs of ancient Martian life once the rocks are returned to Earth ...

Geologists have drilled deeper than ever into material from the Earth’s mantle – more than ... squishy semi-solid that contains a different mineral composition from we see here on the surface.

A huge, record-breaking set of rocks ... study Earth’s history. Since then, the expedition team has been compiling an inventory of the recovered mantle rocks. Presented in the journal Science ...