Scientists now know how to drill deep enough to tap into an energy supply that would power the world for more than 20 million ...

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

Continent-sized structures of mineral protruding from the lower mantle towards Earth's outer core may be contributing to an ...

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The world's oldest known impact crater has been identified at a site in the Pilbara, which is a part of Western Australia...

Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from ...

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

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long ...

It happens when the dense layers of the Earth's crust start to sink and get absorbed ... "While some studies infer that foundering occurred under the southern Sierra and then stalled.

The find could hold implications for understanding the origin of life here on Earth.