University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the Earth's surface. This discovery, made with seismic waves, suggests a complex and layered ...

Sinkites reveal inverted subsurface structures and may affect carbon storage strategies. Their formation remains under active investigation. Scientists have identified hundreds of massive sand formati ...

Microbes have been discovered alive inside 2-billion-year-old rock, offering a rare window into Earth’s deep past. Found in the Bushveld Igneous Complex (BIC) of South Africa, these microscopic ...

When high-velocity asteroids land on Earth, they can form a meteor impact crater. Such collisions have occurred throughout ...

Though mostly underwater, this geological giant has sparked debate as a possible eighth continent. Just 5% of its surface peeks above sea level, making it one of Earth’s most elusive landforms.

A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered ...

The Archean Eon (4–2.5 million years ago) is the second of Earth’s four major geologic eons, a time when the planet was mostly covered by oceans extending far deeper than those found today.

Impact craters are formed when an object from space such as a meteoroid, asteroid or comet strikes Earth at a very high ...

The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth has sold for just over $5 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

While mining the Earth’s core may remain a sci-fi fantasy for now, the discovery provides fresh insight into the geological processes that bring rare materials closer to the surface.

Geological discoveries changed that view dramatically in the late 1980s and 1990s. ... She points out that other major disruptions in Earth’s environment have also cranked up the biosphere, ...