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 ...

South Africa is slowly lifting out of the water—by up to 2 millimeters per year depending on the region. It had been assumed ...

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

Seismologists studying earthquake patterns in California have uncovered extraordinary evidence of a rare geological process ...

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 ...

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

Scientists reveal an underground ocean beneath Earth’s crust, holding more water than all surface oceans combined. The post ...