A scientific analysis of samples collected on the surface of Mars shows the red planet has evolved its own version of a carbon cycle. Scientists studying soil samples from NASA's Curiosity rover have ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

The first is to practice noticing things in the classroom. On a birdwatching trail, I learned to slow down for every slight ...

A new study has changed what scientists thought they knew about Earth’s early history. Researchers have discovered that the ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...

The finding challenged widely held beliefs regarding the formation of continents and the onset of plate tectonics, and it offered evidence that much of the early crust was extracted from a core ...