Scientists have discovered a Jurassic tectonic plate boundary that could help to predict what the planet might look like ...

Scientists have mapped how Earth’s deepest mantle is being deformed—and the results point to long-lost tectonic plates buried ...

In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports ...

Scientists discover hidden "ghost plume" that is so powerful that it is physically warping the internal layers of the planet ...

The planet is almost 25,000 miles around and 4.54 billion years old, and humans are still discovering some of the amazing ...

Earth's lifeless geology and its organic inhabitants share a surprisingly harmonious, cyclical relationship. Beneath the ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Located in north-west Ethiopia, near the border with Eritrea, the Danakil Depression lies deep within the Afar region and is ...

New research suggests Mount Etna forms from deep mantle magma pockets, possibly classifying it as a rare “petit-spot” volcano ...

Scientists believe they found fresh proof of an ancient ocean on Mars in the form of a “bathtub ring” it left after it dried ...

Do you ever wonder about all the stuff we still don’t understand about our own planet? Like, we live on Earth, study it and map it, but somehow there’s so much we haven’t fully figured out. Sure, ...

Mars may have once had an ocean so vast that it covered one-third of the planet before evaporating billions of years ago and ...