Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

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?

Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of Earth's natural wonders, carved out over millions of years by the gradual erosion power ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

Worlds with liquid water could have formed just 200 million years after the big bang from the remains of the earliest ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants ... In much the same way, the mysteries of our very planet’s composition are often similarly and annoyingly out ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

Silicon played a foundational role in the formation of our planet, and it's also thought to be essential to life on Earth. Like the carbon cycle and water cycle, plate tectonics are part of the ...

Though scientists aren't sure how the lithosphere came to be divided into plates, certain aspects of Earth's geology keep the plate tectonic engine chugging along. For a planet to sustain plate ...