For decades, geophysicists have known that something unusual happens nearly 2,900 kilometres beneath our feet. Seismic waves from earthquakes suddenly speed up in a thin zone just above Earth’s core.

Earth's temperature has been much cooler in the past than previously thought, meaning it could be moving toward the warmest ...

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Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from Western Australia. These ancient rocks show that water was likely already ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northeastern Canada is home to the oldest rocks on Earth (Jonathan O'Neil) Earth formed about ...

Earth is currently the only planet known to harbor life—thanks in large part due to the operation of plate tectonics, which cycles critical biogeochemical elements and maintains a planetary thermostat ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Jun 27, 2025, 08:03am EDT Jun 28, 2025, 10:01am EDT Iron-rich ...

The Earth with the upper mantle revealed. Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered a previously unknown layer of partly molten rock in a key region just below the tectonic ...

The people at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History were nice enough to give a couple members of the Chemistry in Pictures team a behind-the-scenes look at their mineral ...

Canadian bedrock more than 4 billion years old may be the oldest known section of the Earth’s early crust. Scientists at the Carnegie Institution of Washington and McGill University in Montreal used ...

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