When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Earth's crust is the planet's outermost layer. It is made of solid rock and sits on top of ...

Do you know what the most abundant element on Earth really is? You might be surprised to know that the answer depends on where you look. Earth is not made of one simple layer. It has the crust, the ...

For decades, geologists have known that a huge portion of Earth’s earliest continental crust simply vanished from the rock record, as if someone had torn out the opening chapters of the planet’s ...