For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

A recent study reveals that slow ocean expansion 15-6 million years ago caused sea levels to change and drop by up to 30 ...

Water from both volcanic rocks and deep mantle melted Earth's crust 1.6 billion years ago. This long-lasting melting formed ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water – by up to two millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

As ice sheets melt and ocean mass gets redistributed around the planet, Earth's geographic North and South poles ... In other ...

What’s happening under the Sierra Nevada could offer rare insight into ... This layer also contains Earth’s oceanic crust — a thinner and denser layer below the oceans — and the continental crust that ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...