Earth stands apart from every other planet, with shifting continents, active geology, and oceans that rewrite its surface.

Researchers have long struggled to explain how Earth’s solid inner core formed, cooled, and crystallized without undergoing ...

Clues to our planet’s dramatic past are in the layers of rocks we might overlook. A great guide shows why they deserve our ...

Dramatic cliffs and high plateaus are caused by the same wave triggered in Earth's middle layer when continents pull apart, a new study finds.

Assistant Professor Andrew Gase may be one of the newest faculty members in the Department of Geosciences, but his past with Boise State goes much further back.

A new analysis of rocks thought to be at least 2.5 billion years old helps clarify the chemical history of Earth's mantle -- the geologic layer beneath the planet's crust. The findings ...

The geology of Mars could provide a snapshot of what our planet was like as the crust was forming and plate tectonics began.

The only period of Earth’s geologic history known to include such high temperatures was between 2.5 and 4 billion years ago during the Archean Eon. Consequently, the researchers inferred that these ...