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For the first time, astronomers have read the mineral fingerprint of a rocky planet’s surface from nearly 49 light-years away ...

Scientists have created a global “treasure map” for rare earth elements by uncovering where the strange volcanic rocks that ...

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 ...

Scientists have identified what could be the oldest rocks on Earth from a rock formation in Canada. The Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt has long been known for its ancient rocks — plains of streaked gray ...

Scientists discovered how Earth recycles continents deep underground, shaping the unusual rocks found in ancient mountain ...

A new atlas charts the global distribution of unusual, critical-metal-bearing igneous rocks, finding that they often form ...

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.

Deep beneath the surface of distant exoplanets known as super-Earths, oceans of molten rock may be doing something extraordinary: powering magnetic fields strong enough to shield entire planets from ...

In 2016, the geochemists Jonas Tusch and Carsten Münker hammered a thousand pounds of rock from the Australian Outback and airfreighted it home to Cologne, Germany. Five years of sawing, crushing, ...

Earth formed about 4.6 billion years ago, during the geological eon known as the Hadean. The name “Hadean” comes from the Greek god of the underworld, reflecting the extreme heat that likely ...