Giant, large-scale eruptions can have more serious impacts. One such event contributed to the demise of the dinosaurs 66 ...

Clock time is also getting shorter, kind of. Broadly speaking, Earth takes roughly 24 hours to spin around on its axis. Ocean ...

We finally know where two giant blobs in Earth's middle layer came from — and they're a mismatched pair. These strange regions in Earth's mantle, known as "large low velocity provinces" (LLVPs ...

Earth is the only planet we know of with continents, the giant landmasses that provide homes to humankind and most of Earth’s biomass. However, we still don’t have firm answers to some basic questions ...

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Giant glaciers pulverized Earth's ancient rocks, setting the stage for complex life by Chris Kirkland, The Conversation Editors' notes ...

If you’re swimming across a thriving coral reef, you may mistakenly believe you floated upon a giant underwater human brain. Brain coral is a hard coral, also known as a stony coral or reef builder.

In this illustration, parts of the ancient planet Theia sink and accumulate at the bottom of the Earth’s mantle. This forms two ‘blobs’ called large low-velocity provinces (LLVPs) deep ...

The moon is unlike anything else in the solar system. So how did our planet end up with such a special moon?

New Curtin University research has revealed how massive ancient glaciers acted like giant bulldozers, reshaping Earth's surface and paving the way for complex life to flourish.

Water driven toward Earth's center by plate tectonics could lead to the creation of diamonds at the boundary between the core and the mantle.