Few other scientific drilling ships exist – and none of this caliber. There is Japan’s Chikyū with a maximum drilling depth of 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) and there was the US-owned JOIDES Resolution ...

A video on X of people collecting marine fossils has apparently caused some confusion, as they are collecting their ancient ...

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Scientists with a new theory about how Earth’s early continents formed predicted where a superold impact crater should ...

1. The North Pacific has a plastic trash problem that popularly goes by the name X. But contrary to what it suggests, the ...

Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest geological formations, consisting of ancient, continental crust that has ...

The oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth (3.5 billion years old) has been discovered in Western Australia's Pilbara region ...

for instance by bacterial transformation of organic material or splitting of water molecules driven by decay of radioactive elements in the Earth’s continental crust. As a result, the occurrence ...

We have discovered the oldest meteorite impact crater on Earth, in the very heart of the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Researchers in Western Australia’s Pilbara region have discovered the world’s oldest known meteorite impact crater, pushing ...

Geologists have uncovered signs of a critical separation between the cool continental crust and mantle below, according to Science Alert. "Our results support a hypothesis that lithospheric ...