Since their formation billions of years ago, the oldest parts of the Earth's continental rocks have generated natural ...

Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and as the eons passed, the crust of the young planet experienced turbulence. Asteroid collisions shattered some parts, which melted and recrystallized, while ...

More information: Natural hydrogen resource accumulation in the continental crust, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43017-025-00670-1 Journal information: Nature Reviews ...

A Fragment of Earth’s Original Crust Still Exists—and It’s Buried in Canada. Our planet has been asteroid-smashed, melted and eroded, enough that most of its original armor has been long buried.

The Kola Superdeep Borehole, the deepest manmade hole ever drilled into the Earth's crust, is one of the most fascinating scientific endeavors of the 20th century. Located in the Kola Peninsula of ...

Every breath we take in contains 21% oxygen, the gas that makes life on Earth possible. Oxygen, in its combined oxide state, has always been abundant in Earth's crust, but elemental diatomic ...

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Ever been late because you misread a clock? Sometimes, the "clocks" geologists use to date events can also be misread.

UNDATED (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A groundbreaking study by the University of Göttingen in Germany, published in the journal Nature, suggests that Earth's core is leaking gold and other precious ...