Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Berlin, Germany have obtained data from the Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii suggesting that Earth’s crust might be recycled in as little as half a ...

The ongoing formation of the Apennine mountain range has been a mystery for years, but scientists are starting to piece together its surprising geology.

The Earth’s crust is constantly changing. It’s currently made of many huge rock slabs called tectonic plates—seven major ones along with many more smaller plates—that fit together like puzzle pieces ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new discovery that changes ...

Earth's continental configurations have changed dramatically over its billions of years' history, transforming not only their positions across the planet, but also their topography as expansion and ...

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...

Just like honey slowly dripping from a spoon, parts of the rocky outermost layer of Earth's shell are continuously sinking into the more fluid layer of the planet's mantle over the course of millions ...

Numerous operations have set out to dig miles deep into the Earth's crust. None of them have penetrated below the outer crust, leaving many mysteries hidden within the mantle and deeper layers of our ...