Long before the Great Lakes, a rift nearly tore North America in half—leaving behind Lake Superior’s depth, copper-rich ridges, and stories still told today.

A team of international astronomers led by Richard Teague, the Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor in the Department of ...

The fundamental building blocks for planet formation can exist even in environments with extreme ultraviolet radiation, ...

Major implications for Earth's geochemical history The researchers also highlighted the formation of a significant quantity of solids at the surface rather than at depth. This observation suggests ...

The record sheds light on the climate early humans experienced when they were spreading out of Africa. A tree-ringed African ...

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

Sandstone and other rocks formed in water Our blue planet’s abundant water makes it unique in our solar system. And water doesn’t just help melt rocks on Earth, it also helps to stick them ...

Incredible journey to understand the formation of gold and the fascinating process of extracting it from the earth's crust, where it has remained for billions of years. Gold is created through ...

The Earth's granite crust harbours continental landmasses that have remained stable and above mean sea level for more than a billion years 1. The withdrawal of large volumes of granitic magma from ...

Imagine compressing the entire 4.5-billion-year history of Earth into just 10 minutes. In this fast-paced, visually stunning journey, we take you from Earth’s fiery formation to the rise of modern ...

It isn’t easy to figure out how the Earth was built, because it happened 4½ billion years ago, and no one was there to watch. So scientists have had to look at what the Earth looks like now and ...