The Earth’s interior is far more complex than what we are taught in school. Instead of just three layers- crust, mantle, and ...

Planet Earth's sixth ocean has been spotted slowly emerging in what is a geological phenomenon. While experts have been ...

In the vast, serene deserts of Ethiopia, something remarkable has been happening since 2005—a 35-mile-long crack, known as ...

Extinct volcanoes that lurk around Rapa Nui, aka Easter Island, may challenge some parts of the standard explanation about ...

How old is Earth? Our planet's age is known from a variety of sources, from rocks on our own planet to ones from the moon.

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause ...

It’s often taught that Earth’s rocky tectonic plates sit on top of a syrup-like bed of viscous rock, known as the mantle, that moves along with those plates like a conveyor belt. This is ...

When a meteorite with the mass of four Mount Everests hit Earth 3.2 billion years ago, it caused global chaos and provided an ...

It’s possible, albeit by no means certain, that a similar event could occur again in the future. Earth’s tectonic plates are ...

Space rocks to come close to Earth todayThe largest of the six asteroids measures up to 580 feet wideNASA has identified six ...