Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet ... "Ancient lithosphere can be broken apart, and this disintegration can ...

New study reveals that Earth's inner core is undergoing unexpected structural changes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian ...

These crustal collisions occur gradually over millions of years, yet have a profound impact in reshaping the Earth's surface.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places. Potential patches of Earth's ancient crust, sometimes called "sunken worlds ...

journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for signs of life. “You get into a small truck or vehicle and go down a long, winding roadway that corkscrews down into the Earth,” she tells The Scientist. By ...

Did you know that our planet’s crust has tides too? Brown University's Harriet Lau explains how they are different to the ocean. Why a famous photograph of King Richard III's skeleton was a ...

Our research group uses multidisciplinary tools to address fundamental geological questions related to the origin and evolution of Earth and other planetary bodies. The main focus is on the crust ...