An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight ...

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For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

A scorching, airless world just 48 light-years away is offering scientists a rare glimpse into the geology of distant planets ...

Earth's earliest continents may have set the chemical stage for life by regulating boron levels in ancient oceans, a new ...

We've been living on this planet for hundreds of thousands of years, and we still don't fully understand it. That's not a ...

Planetary scientists have long debated where the material that formed Earth comes from. Despite its location in the inner solar system, they consider it likely that 6–40% of this material must have ...