Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go?

The Hadean protocrust formation and early plate tectonics challenged by new study, questioning geological assumptions.

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

Myanmar’s location between two tectonic plates – the India and Eurasia plates – places it at particular risk of quakes.

New research is reshaping how scientists understand the earliest days of Earth’s formation—suggesting that the deep interior ...

Just when things couldn't get any crazier in the US, scientists have discovered that the underside of the Earth's crust is ...

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Scientists say that the geographical North Pole is on the move and could shift nearly 90 feet (27 metres) by 2100.

The Earth is made up of three parts: a molten, mostly metallic core at the centre, surrounded by a hot, nearly solid layer of rock called the mantle, with a jigsaw-like crust on the outside that ...