Researchers used zircons and AI to reconstruct Earth's ancient crust, revealing possible tectonic processes from the planet's ...

Geologists confirm that industrial waste turns into rock in just 35 years, challenging traditional ideas about geological ...

If the rock contained just 1 per cent water, it would mean that there is three times more water under the surface of the Earth than there is in the oceans on the surface.

Over time, Earth's surface renews itself in a process known as the rock cycle. Old or new, sedimentary or igneous, some of the Earth's crust drifts below the surface at subduction zones, where one ...

Plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth’s crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought—and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life ...

Scientists believe that the water cycle involves all the water on Earth, circulating between the atmosphere, oceans, and surface waters. The Deep Water Cycle Water extends deep into Earth, as the ...

Over 400 million years ago, an upwelling of hot rock from Earth's mantle wrenched apart the crust in Mongolia, creating an ocean that survived for 115 million years.

Meteorite impacts appear to come and go in a 200-million-year cycle over the course of Earth’s history.

They inserted the vice into a pressurized chamber and then applied pressures to each cylinder that were comparable to those encountered by rocks across the Earth’s crust. The scientists used ...