Water may have been shaping Earth’s deep interior far earlier than many geologists thought. In rocks more than 3 billion years old from Western Australia, a research team found chemical signs that ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

Geologists studying some of the planet’s oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

Researchers studying ancient rocks from Western Australia's Pilbara Craton found evidence that water was moving deep into ...

In May 2018, the island of Mayotte, between Madagascar and Mozambique, began to experience a series of earthquakes that led ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how water shaped Earth’s evolution three billion years ago ...

Water began to form the internal structure of the Earth and influence volcanic activity more than 3 billion years ago. This ...

Some 34 million years ago, when Earth was significantly warmer than it is today, Antarctica froze over. It would take another ...

Old crystals found in Western Australia are drawing fresh attention from geologists studying the formation of Earth. These minerals, called zircons, have been dated to be older than four billion years ...

A new trail on Scotland's east coast takes travellers into Earth's ancient past, where scientists proved the planet was ...

Sharks kill a handful of people each year, yet the ocean's most feared predators face threats so severe that the real danger ...