Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

As asteroid mining becomes a reality, scientists are questioning whether extracting space minerals could alter Earth’s ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

Indian tectonic plate is splitting beneath the Himalayas, revealing a dramatic twist in Earth's tectonic history, scientists ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

“With a clearer three-dimensional image of how tectonic plates interact, scientists can better comprehend the Earth's surface evolution and potentially forecast seismic events with greater ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an extraordinary living being” that is “continuously changing.” ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.