Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

Scientists have discovered that a portion of the North American craton is slowly dripping into Earth's mantle, challenging ...

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

Additionally, the discovery of two “giant blobs” deep inside the Earth has sparked debates among experts about how and why ...

Scientists reveal an underground ocean beneath Earth’s crust, holding more water than all surface oceans combined. The post ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

As climate change melts ice sheets and glaciers, water is being redistributed across the globe — and could end up moving the ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

A recent study challenges previous geological assumptions, revealing that Earth's initial protocrust closely resembled the ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...