Researchers are interested in analyzing these rare remnants from "proto-Earth" because it would give them an idea about the ...

In the depths of the Earth, hidden within some of the planet’s oldest and deepest rocks, lay a secret 4.5 billion years old.

Scientists in a geological breakthrough have discovered rare and 4.5 billion-year-old remnants of “proto Earth”, tracing back ...

A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die ...

Throughout most of Earth's geological history, its paleoclimate has remained hospitable to life—largely thanks to continental ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology analysed chemical fossils from more than 541 million years ago.

Anjana Khatwa, the award winning earth scientist  who is also the self-described "odd girl who studied rocks," on her book The Whispers of Rock.

The Beemerville Volcano gets its name from a section of Wantage, but also is known as Rutan Hill. Space Farms Zoo and Museum, the region’s best-known business, is located about four miles to the south ...

If you see a small plane flying low over your community in the next few months, it just might be the U.S. Geological Survey doing some long-overdue mapping. Specific to Connecticut, this aerial ...

"That would be a really cool discovery by itself," University of Iowa planetary geologist Valerie Payre said. "That would ...

Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have discovered extremely rare remnants of "proto Earth," which formed about 4.5 billion ...