A prevailing theory in the scientific community, known as the "RNA World" hypothesis, suggests that life may have originally ...

Himalayas reiterate a tale of planetary transformation — of drifting continents, lost oceans, and the birth of life itself.

Newly found 600-million-year-old clues in the Himalayas reiterate a tale of planetary transformation — of drifting continents ...

The horseshoe-shaped Midcontinent Rift is a 2,000-kilometer scar that is also called North America's 'broken heart' by ...

A new study published in Science Advances by researchers from the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry of the Chinese Academy ...

This finding has reshaped how we understand the Earth’s mineral wealth and is challenging old scientific beliefs about how ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications for the geological history of the region and some of the U.

Unlike Earth, the moon’s cooling crust formed a thick layer of feldspar, giving rise to the bright highlands visible today. Volcanic eruptions on the moon produced vast basaltic plains ...

It represents one of Earth’s oldest and most stable continental blocks. The formation has undergone ... the Cordilleran Belt and the Precambrian Shield exposed in parts of the midwest.

Biotites show K2O, MgO, FeO, TiO2, and Al2O3 concentrations consistent with magmatic formation, and Ti-in-biotite thermometry suggests temperatures of ~740˚C - 800˚C. Plagioclase compositions (An26-33 ...