A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die ...

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms of the Milky Way over more than 4 billion years, according to new research.

New research reveals that Earth’s continents owe their stability to searing heat deep in the planet’s crust. At more than ...

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate dives beneath another—actively breaking apart. The discovery, reported in ...

A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...

Earthquakes often bring to mind images of destruction, of the Earth breaking open and altering landscapes. But after an ...

For billions of years, Earth’s continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems ...

By dragging huge chunks of crust into the mantle, Earth's middle layer, plate tectonics pulls carbon from ... a geoscientist ...

A rock described as a flaky pastry may sound delicate, but researchers at Tohoku University found that when they fold under compressive forces in just the right way, they can actually be strong. These ...

At a busy street crossing, people wait for the signal to change. When one person steps out first, others soon follow. Scientists in Amsterdam have found that this same kind of behavior happens at a ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...