Long before dinosaurs, oceans, or even life itself, Earth was nearly destroyed by a catastrophic collision with a Mars-sized ...

An underwater volcano off the coast of Mayotte, an island lying between Madagascar and Mozambique, erupted in 2018. According ...

While scientists are revising the timeline at Australia's North Pole Dome, it's still our oldest known crater.

In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth’s oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years. They are dark, weathered volcanic rocks, close to 3.5 billion years old, cut ...

Major clues to the origins of our planet—and life itself—are locked inside some three billion-year-old volcanic rocks from ...

An AI simulation of an impact shows basalt-rich (purple) and basalt-poor (green) regions. (Curtin University) The planet Earth we live on today bears very few traces of its infancy. The 500 million ...

An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight into how ancient continents on Earth formed as far back as 3.5 billion ...

In the Pilbara of Western Australia, some of Earth's oldest rocks lie beneath the sky, as they have for billions of years. They are dark, weathered volcanic rocks, close to 3.5 billion years old, cut ...