Far beneath the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean, at depths ranging from 900 to 1200 kilometers, researchers have uncovered ...

A new paper has dug into an energy treasure trove beneath our feet—natural hydrogen that could power society for the next 170 ...

"Taken together, the Archean rocks of the Wyoming-Minnesota-Michigan block represent the oldest continental crust in the United States, the nucleus around which the younger rocks of the nation ...

The oldest rock in the United States has been discovered in Michigan, with zircons dating back 3.82 billion years.

New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth's hotter twin, according to new research that describes movements of the planet's crust. Scientists expected ...

Murujuga, also known by the modern name Burrup Peninsula, in northwestern Australia, is home to potentially the world’s oldest and most endangered petroglyphs. Some of the more than one million ...

The oldest building in the state was built not long after that, and it opens for summer tours starting in June. Interested in visiting? Here's what to know about it. The oldest building in the ...

Geologist Michael Ackerson holds a sample from Canada's Acasta Gneiss formation, home to some of the oldest rocks on the ... “It has continental crust, oceans and life. No other planetary ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal, dated to around 350 million years ago. The discovery suggests that after the first animals ...

Now a team of scientists says it has found the tracks of one — potentially the oldest such markings of amniotes. The footprints skitter across a block of sandstone retrieved from a river bank in ...

The previous oldest ants known to science, hell ants found in France and Myanmar, were estimated to be about 99 million years old. They were all found in amber, or fossilized tree resin.

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 ...