It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

Why do some earthquakes release more energy than others? A research team led by Prof. Dr. Armin Dielforder from the ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds. This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously ...

Two mysterious blobs deep inside Earth may hold clues about the origin of life on our planet, new research finds. Deep ...

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth's crust is dripping into the planetary interior. There, blobs of molten rock are coalescing in the upper mantle ...

Researchers re-created the conditions deep inside the Cascadia subduction zone and found that fractured rocks can repair ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing earthquake management ...

Scientists have uncovered massive, dense rock structures deep beneath the western Pacific, challenging long-held theories ...

Discover the top 7 oldest rocks in the world, their ages, locations, and scientific importance. Learn how these ancient ...

As early as 2024, scientists from the US and China discovered that the Earth’s core had slowed down and even stopped moving in relation to the Earth’s crust. But until now, the general public—that’s ...