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

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 ...

The magnetized rocks of Earth's crust and mantle, also known as the upper lithosphere, accounts for generating 6 percent of ...

While we have sent probes billions of kilometers into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own ...

The continent-sized blobs are much hotter than the lower mantle, creating a significant temperature gradient in the rocky ...

San Ramon, Calif., has been rattled by dozens of small earthquakes in recent months. Even in a region used to regular shaking, it’s been a lot.

Rare rocks buried deep in central Australia have revealed how a valuable niobium deposit formed during the breakup of an ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

The ore was recovered in the early 1970s and completely stumped scientists, until they realized it was evidence of something ...