In recent research published by myself and my colleague Tony Yeates in the journal Tectonophysics, we investigate what we believe – based on many years of experience in asteroid impact research – is ...

This oxygen source likely predated photosynthesis. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Powerful earthquakes that shook Earth some 3.8 ...

Far below the postcard beaches and turquoise shallows of Bermuda, scientists have mapped a colossal slab of rock that should ...

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth's history. Our history. Research shows there are little-known ...

“To see a world in a grain of sand,” the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an oft-used phrase that also captures some of what geologists do. We observe the composition of mineral ...

Nowhere can escape climate change. Even the Earth's crust is feeling the impact of rising temperatures and melting ice. Reading time 3 minutes Both the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets—the world’s ...