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

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

A recent study challenges previous geological assumptions, revealing that Earth's initial protocrust closely resembled the ...

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

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

"Water abundance in the lunar mantle provides insights into the giant impact formation models for the Moon and plays a ...

Perseverance explores Jezero Crater’s rim, uncovering diverse rocks that reveal Mars’ ancient geology and possible signs of ...

Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see ...

Volcanoes can look like small mountains or hills. A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust that allows magma, hot ash and gases to escape. Composite volcanoes are the most common type of volcano.

A volcano is an opening in the Earth’s crust, which allows hot magma, ash and gases to escape from below the surface. I’ve been asked by my fellow explorers to get some rock samples from Mount ...