A chunk of the Earth's crust is missing and scientists have discovered where it is ...

For more than seven decades, phosphorus has represented one of the great paradoxes in the study of the origin of life. This ...

A young underwater volcano near Mayotte has carried a chemical memory of Earth’s birth all the way to the seafloor. And it’s ...

The crusty conundrum carries fundamental implications. The thickness of continental crust — the part of Earth’s crust that forms land masses and continents — plays an important role in everything from ...

Researchers have spent decades hunting for clues about the origins of the process that moves the continents around. Its deep history is finally starting to come into focus. Earth’s outer shell ...

Earth is the only planet we know of with buoyant, silica-rich continents. But, despite decades of research, geologists still don’t agree on how they formed. “The continents started appearing around ...

Our Earth is structured sort of like an onion – it’s one layer after another. Starting from the top down, there’s the crust, which includes the surface you walk on; then farther down, the mantle, ...