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

Researchers have made a new discovery that changes our understanding of Earth's early geological history, challenging beliefs ...

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 ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Earth is the only known planet which has plate tectonics today. The constant movement of these giant slabs of rock over the ...

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

Scientists have long thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see ...

Take a tour of the space volcanoes on other planets and moons across the Solar System, and find out how they differ from ...

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 ...