Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

Scientists discuss the ordinary rocks found on Earth’s surface that are special ... it also helps to stick them together. Sedimentary rocks like sandstones form when preexisting rocks break ...

Breakthrough discovery reveals gold and precious metals are slowly leaking from Earth's core through Hawaiian volcanoes.

We now also make rocks on a gargantuan scale, as concrete, brick, ceramics and other newly minted concoctions, rapidly transforming Earth’s surface ... most sedimentary rocks on Earth were ...

Earth’s core is apparently a bit leakier than scientists expected. In a new study published in Nature, researchers describe ...

When scientists talk about Earth’s history, they often mention huge numbers– billions of years, shifting continents, and ...

Sedimentary rocks at the surface of Mars have been subjected to ... analyses when Martian samples are eventually returned to Earth.

During the first billion years or so of Earth's history, nearly the entire surface would have featured ... of water atop the tsunami-born sedimentary rock in layers of chert with evaporites ...

"Fine-grained sedimentary rocks on Earth are those that are most likely ... were deposited in the so-called Three Forks cache on the surface of Jezero as a backup in case the rover suffers ...

More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ... “In essence the ‘DNA’ fingerprint of these sedimentary rocks changed.” The findings appear ...