Researchers say they might have discovered the oldest rocks on Earth. The rocks in question are a belt of swirly, ...

Researchers have published a study that outlines the discovery of three new types of minerals never before catalogued on ...

Scientists from the French Blood Establishment (EFS) has successfully identified the ultra-rare 48 th blood type group, known ...

Astronomers have discovered over 100 new alien worlds so far this year — some many light-years away from Earth — that ...

Two different testing methods found that rocks from an area called the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in northern Quebec date ...

In just 10 hours of observing the night sky, the powerful new telescope detected more than 2000 new asteroids, including a ...

NASA may have just found our second Earth - a planet so similar, it could be habitable for humans. But this is just the ...

An exoplanet is any planet beyond our solar system. Most of them orbit other stars, but some free-floating exoplanets, called ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to find millions of unknown objects in our solar system, and perhaps even a ...

Scientists found a rhythmic mantle plume beneath Ethiopia is slowly tearing Africa apart - hinting at the birth of a new ...

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.