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

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

The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

Researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), along with collaborators from ...

Geography textbooks describe the Earth's mantle beneath its plates as a well-mixed viscous rock that moves along with those ...

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

An odd phenomenon called lithospheric dripping might occur wherever mountains form. Earth's crust may "drip" into its middle ...

But the sturdy plate — inscribed with far more than the poignant words of Limón — also has a twin that sits on our planet. The replica is at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, California, and ...

Scientists paint a compelling picture of what happened the day the S2 meteorite crashed into Earth 3.26 billion years ago.

The two tremors shifted the entire Anatolian plate to the west, a phenomenon that necessitates a reevaluation of existing ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East ...