Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

Mars Express captures images of Acheron Fossae, revealing the Red Planet’s split terrain—ancient cratered highlands and ...

Greenland Is Already Part of North America Because It Sits on the North American Tectonic Plate Earth, since its inception, ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

The intersection of religion and science is visible at the observatory. A plaque of St. Emidius, whose name is traditionally ...

A long-lost slab of Earth’s crust may be pulling away the bottom of the oldest part of North America, scientists say ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...