The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift ...

Geologists have been observing for years a 2,500 km 'zone of weakness' stretching from Tanzania to Namibia, rich in resources ...

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

Scientists have identified a hidden deep-Earth pattern that may reveal where rare earth deposits form. The study links ...

Earth's first continents may have emerged from the planet's primordial oceans much earlier than we thought, just six hundred million years after the planet formed, new research suggests. The ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, a colossal impact between the young Earth and a mysterious planetary body called Theia changed everything—reshaping Earth, forming the Moon, and scattering clues across ...

The Giant Impact Hypothesis has long fascinated scientists as the leading explanation for the Moon's formation. Around 4.5 billion years ago, the Earth and a Mars-sized protoplanet called Theia ...

A planet-forming disk with more water than all of Earth's oceans has been discovered. The disk, which is located in the constellation Taurus, is 450 light-years away from Earth. Astronomers used the ...

Stephen has degrees in science (Physics major) and arts (English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science), as well as a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication. Stephen has degrees in ...

Immediately after the proto-Earth was formed, the Lambda luminosity started pumping heat into the core. This gave rise to a heated equatorial belt in the outer core and the two antipodal proto-LLVPs.