A new study shows that climate shapes the land and can change where earthquakes happen and when volcanoes erupt.

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

Microscopic life thrives kilometers beneath Earth's surface, surviving on chemical reactions in rock and water. These deep-Earth microbes, once thought impossible to exist, are now believed to migrate ...

A recent study reveals the Himalayas' enduring strength stems not just from thick crust but from a rigid slice of Earth's ...

By studying ancient lava flows that fractured over Turkey’s Tuz Gölü Fault, researchers at Curtin University have uncovered ...

New study reveals Earth’s crust collapse in action, offering rare insight into how tectonic plates fracture and reshape the planet.

All complex life on Earth may be the result of plate tectonics tearing apart the ancient supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

Researchers discovered that continents don’t just split at the surface—they also peel from below, feeding volcanic activity in the oceans. Simulations reveal that slow mantle waves strip continental ...

According to the latest mathematical models, the moon has a fluid outer core and a solid inner core, similar to Earth’s. The ...