For decades, climate science has treated Earth’s shifting crust as a slow, distant backdrop to the drama of global warming.

First global map of mantle earthquakes reveals seismic activity far beneath continents, challenging old ideas about Earth’s ...

Parts of ancient Earth may have formed continents and recycled crust through subduction far earlier than previously thought.

Learn how seismic waves helped identify rare mantle earthquakes deep below Earth’s crust, offering new insight into the ...

A study of the East African Rift reveals that ancient heating and dehydration can strengthen continental crust, reshaping how and where continents break apart.

Around the Balkan Peninsula, the African plate is sinking beneath the European plate. A piece of deeply submerged African ...

PCWorld reports that scientists discovered Earth’s inner core has slowed its rotation relative to the crust, even appearing to stop moving in a phenomenon that occurs every 35 years. This iron-nickel ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

Deep beneath your feet is a subterranean melting pot. A fiery inferno ready to boil over at any moment. Anywhere or anytime. Imagine that today is the day the ground beneath your feet gave way, and ...