Several times since the age of dinosaurs, the solid part of our planet has rolled over, drowning some continents and lifting ...

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...

What Earth do you live on? A round one? Flat one? Maybe your world is resting on the back of a huge cosmic turtle? What about ...

High-resolution seismic surveys in Italy's Ossola Valley have mapped the bedrock beneath two planned boreholes of the ICDP ...

Continental clues: Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet’s history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Earth's first crust looked ...

The new map highlights six regions that had been poorly sampled by PKP precursor studies and now appear to be promising ...

Do you ever wonder about all the stuff we still don’t understand about our own planet? Like, we live on Earth, study it and map it, but somehow there’s so much we haven’t fully figured out. Sure, ...

Scientists have discovered two giant mystery structures lurking under the Earth's surface ...

Asteroids and planetesimals regularly bombarded Earth between about 4.6 billion and 3.5 billion years ago, during the Hadean and Archean eons. Because few rocks today are more than 4 billion years old ...

From a vortex of dust to a blue planet—how the Earth was bornSo far, we have looked at the 'current state' of the planet ...