The crater in Western Australia was identified as the oldest in the world earlier this year, but new research suggests the ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Wu Fuyuan, an academician of the CAS and a corresponding author of the study, said the moon displays an asymmetry between its ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

Leka, a 500-million-year-old geological wonder in Trøndelag, offers a unique travel experience. Explore the island's dramatic ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will one day create a new ocean. This is the conclusion of an international team ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Scientists believed that Venus' crust was continuously thickening, in the absence of mechanisms like plate tectonics. However, a publication in Nature Communications proposes a new model based on rock ...

"It resets the playing field for how the geology, crust and atmosphere on Venus work together." Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering ...

New signals point to vast ocean of water hidden beneath Mars’s crust Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the red dust ...