If there was ever any doubt the 2011 discovery by a post-doctoral student was indeed the hottest rock on Earth, new findings from a Western-led research team are putting that uncertainty to rest.

A University of Utah seismologist analyzed seismic waves that bombarded Earth's core, and believes he got a look at the earliest roots of Earth's most cataclysmic kind of volcanic eruption. But don't ...

The shattering of Nuna may have built the perfect environment for life to evolve From 1.8 billion to 800 million years ago, ...

Published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, this study has reconstructed sea level variations over the past 540 million years in unprecedented detail. This breakthrough allows scientists to ...

Impact craters found around the Earth that were made around the same time could be linked to debris falling from a ring, a new study suggests. By Becky Ferreira If you were to look up from Earth some ...

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Earth may have had a giant ring of space rocks surrounding it, similar to those around Saturn, which could have led to chaotic meteorite strikes on our planet's surface, new research suggests. The ...

Saturn sports some of the coolest bling of any planet in our solar system. Its nine rings, which are mainly comprised of dust, rock and ice, have been the subject of scientific research for years.

For most of his career, Fisher studied the geology of the Appalachian Piedmont and the kinetics of metamorphic processes, producing a definitive summary of southern and central Appalachian geology. He ...

Earth as we know it offers majestic trees, meandering streams, and rolling hills. Yet below the Earth's surface, forces and elements like intense pressure and scalding magma simmer and stew—and make ...