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

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

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

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

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

Remnants of a liquid layer of magma near Earth's core, formed in the first few hundred million years of the planet's history, ...

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 ...

A giant crack is ripping through East Africa, reshaping the continent’s future in ways few imagined. Scientists have spotted signs of something far more dramatic beneath the surface.

Google & Baseload Capital’s inaugural PPAs for geothermal energy in Taiwan support Google’s existing regional renewable energy commitments with BlackRock ...

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

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...