South African diamonds have revealed nickel-rich metallic inclusions, offering the first direct evidence of reactions ...

From a distance, Biosphere 2 emerges from the cacti and creosote of the Sonoran desert like a gleaming oasis, a colony of ...

Diamonds from South Africa’s Voorspoed mine have revealed the first natural evidence of nickel-rich metallic alloys forming ...

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how ...

Recent advances in science have unearthed a significant revelation: the discovery of a ‘lost’ continent, Zealandia, which was ...

Earth's core cannot be made just of iron — it also appears to contain carbon. And our research suggests it may contain a bit ...

Potentially the largest known source of niobium discovered in central Australia formed 830 million years ago, and we can thank the breakup of the ancient supercontinent Rodinia.

A scientific team has discovered the first Mesozoic amber deposit with preserved insects in South America in the province of ...

A new ocean could soon be forming beneath us. Earth’s surface is a dynamic and ever-changing mosaic of tectonic plates, ...

Africa rests on three tectonic plates that are all moving away from each other and this has already caused some changes that ...

There is a direct link between Earth’s crust formation and meteorite impacts influenced by the Milky Way’s structure, as found by a new study.

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...