Just when things couldn't get any crazier in the US, scientists have discovered that the underside of the Earth's crust is ...

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

The study also provides a new approach to solving one of the biggest enduring scientific mysteries: when did plate tectonics ...

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new discovery that ...

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 ...

"Nobody had really considered the possibility of convection in the crust of Venus before," said Slava Solomatov, a professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences.

Scientists understand the basics of earthquakes. The Earth’s crust consists of large tectonic plates, massive slabs of rock moving slowly but constantly. When these plates rub against each other ...

Earth's first crust, formed around 4.5 billion years ago, likely had chemical features similar to today's continental crust, suggesting that the distinctive chemical signature of continents was ...