Now, scientists have uncovered one of these missing pieces—the Pontus plate—shedding new light on Earth’s geological past and how the planet continues to evolve. The Earth’s crust is divided into ...

Fossil fuels powered the industrial revolution. Would aliens need a similar power source to jump-start a technical revolution ...

Earth is also the only planet in our solar system known to have plate tectonics, or pieces of the crust that move around and smash into each other. Increasingly, scientists believe that plate ...

Venus—a hot planet pocked with tens of thousands of volcanoes—may be even more geologically active near its surface than ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic field.

A supercomputer has produced a predictive model detailing the tectonic catastrophe that would end life on Earth as we know it ...

Not only can the composition of a planet tell us how long it ... "garnet planets" are less likely to have plate tectonics than olivine planets such as Earth. Garnet has more silicon than olivine ...

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

The discovery that helium and iron can mix at the temperatures and pressures found at the center of Earth could settle a long-standing debate over how our planet formed.

When the ground shakes violently, entire cities can crumble within minutes. Homes, hospitals, roads, and lives can vanish ...