Earth is as old as the rest as the solar system, but it wasn't always as it is now, this is particularly true of the brief ...

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

Scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science used a powerful combination of cutting-edge chemistry and artificial ...

The researchers’ simulations reveal that these continental shelves expanded dramatically. Over roughly 350 million years, the ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

ALMATY — Kazakhstan is intensifying its global search for strategic minerals as the national mining company Tau-Ken Samruk ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

A newly discovered, remarkably well-preserved impact crater is shedding fresh light on how extraterrestrial bodies collide ...

Even long-lived subduction zones eventually die, and scientists think they are witnessing the death of one in the northern ...

A team of researchers has uncovered a remarkably intact impact structure that is now known as the Jinlin crater.

UB earth sciences students develop valuable fieldwork skills during a trip to New Hampshire to study igneous rocks and volcanic landscapes.

A panoramic aerial drone image of the Jinlin crater with the approximate location of the crater rim labeled, with an insert ...