A team of international scientists might have just identified where a billion years of missing history might have gone ...

A layer of rock just 520 million years old sat directly on top of ancient rock dating back 1.4 to 1.8 billion years.

There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did the Earth's mantle begin to vigorously circulate in a process called ...

Old crystals found in Western Australia are drawing fresh attention from geologists studying the formation of Earth. These minerals, called zircons, have been dated to be older than four billion years ...

The Great Unconformity is a major gap in Earth's geologic record. The missing layer between Precambrian and Cambrian rocks ...

Between 720 million and 635 million years ago, Earth may have experienced one of ...

In 1986, Kihachiro Aratake was diving off the coast of Yonaguni when he spotted a giant structure 25 meters below the surface ...

New research sheds light on the earliest days of the earth's formation and potentially calls into question some earlier assumptions in planetary science about the early years of rocky planets.

In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists from Utrecht University have uncovered the remnants of a long-lost continent, Greater Adria, which has been buried beneath Southern Europe for around 140 ...

The X-Men are the most important group in mutant history, and some of teh oldest mutants on Earth have molded the team.

Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it ...

There's a billion-year gap in Earth's geological history. A new study seeks to explain the mystery.