The study of the Earth’s rocks and natural resources is racist and linked to “white supremacy”, according to a geography ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the Earth's surface.

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

Evidence from Colorado suggests glaciers once covered Earth to the equator, supporting the Snowball Earth theory. This ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause their eventual disintegration.

Geologic maps, however, are not an exact depiction of the Earth’s surface. Instead, they display a generalization of ...

An unexpected find in tiny crystals hints that the Earth's mantle may not quite behave as has been believed for nearly a century.