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Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except for one small chunk.

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

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

The Dead Sea is a confluence of extraordinary conditions: the lowest point on Earth's surface, with one of the world's ...

Learn about how volcanoes are formed and the ways they erupt Chiara Maria Petrone, Roberto Scandone, and Alex Whittaker On ...

Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and as the eons passed, the crust of the young planet experienced turbulence. Asteroid collisions shattered some parts, which melted and recrystallized, while ...

Earth has experienced both hot and cold periods over time, though warm times have been more common. That’s true of the last 485 million years, as seen in this timeline reported in 2024. Our genus, ...

The tectonic plates into which the planetary crust is divided aren't fixed in position, but shift and collide and even slip underneath one another.

Gigantic hidden fortresses discovered 1,800 miles underground in Earth's mantle, rewrite how the planet's interior works.

As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ...