McArie Island, located between New Zealand and Antarctica, is a geological treasure that offers a glimpse into Earth’s deep past. Unlike most islands, McArie is composed entirely of oceanic crust and ...

How did India get to its present location? Could it have been somewhere else if history were different? A study has found ...

The planet’s rotation fluctuates as it travels around the sun, and measurements suggest we’re losing more than a millisecond during the long days of summer.

A new study has found that dams are so effective at 'impounding' massive amounts of water that they've effectively shifted ...

Tungsten (W), a hard, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant metal, is indispensable to modern high-tech industries—from ...

China’s Chang’e-6 mission has made lunar history by retrieving the first-ever samples from the Moon’s mysterious farside, ...

Scientists created a simulation showing that early Earth still retained chemical traces of its igneous youth, 4.5 billion years ago.

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New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused ...

Normally, younger rocks are deposited above older ones, forming predictable geologic layers. In the North Sea, this process ...

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