A new study traces a 120-million-year-old 'super-eruption' to its source, offering new insights into Earth's complex geological history.

Geologists led by the University of Maryland and the University of Hawaiʻi finally connected the dots between one of the ...

India’s Chandrayaan-3 mission has uncovered critical evidence of primitive lunar mantle materials at the Moon’s Shiv Shakti ...

Astronomers studied it for clues to how early planets grew, and what Earth might have looked like in its infancy.

Scientists drilled the deepest core yet, reaching near Earth's mantle, uncovering unique geological samples and offering new insights into Earth's structure.

Vesta, one of the two largest bodies in our solar system's asteroid belt, has long been thought to be more than just another ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

A rare geological process is tearing the Indian Plate apart deep beneath the surface, scientists have discovered. In a study ...

These rocks, known as enstatite chondrites, are chemically similar to Earth’s early building blocks. A specimen found in Antarctica provided the key sample for the study. Ancient meteorites offer a ...

A 4.4-billion-year-old zircon crystal discovered in Australia may be the oldest surviving piece of Earth.

which are the building blocks of fats and oils and are created on Earth through biological activity. And scientists said the discovery is of 'high interest' in the search for potential signs of life.

One such moment was when space craft sent back images of the Earth for the first time. Another is the discovery of life on ...