The ancient history of Earth has always been hard to read. Most of the planet’s earliest crust has been lost, buried, or melted by geologic processes over billions of years.

Pliny the Younger described the ground shaking as Mount Vesuvius exploded in fury. That eruption devastated Pompeii.

Two different testing methods have revealed that rocks from the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northeastern Canada date back to 4.16 billion years ago, reinforcing their status as the oldest reliably ...

So, it's plausible that these swirls are caused by subsurface magma," said Krawczynski, who is a faculty fellow in the ...

Scientists trace the source of Santorini quakes to deep magma flow, challenging fault-based theories with new volcanic ...

When the island of Santorini was rattled by thousands of small earthquakes earlier this year, many people were left mystified ...

"Its occurrence is like finding a tropical seed in Arctic ice – indicating either an unexpected local environment or ...

A tiny grain from asteroid Ryugu has revealed djerfisherite, a mineral that normally forms in scorching, oxygen-poor settings ...

Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried. Except ...

The research team has identified atacamite as a material with magnetocaloric properties. Natural crystals have long ...

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