New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

Venus may be far more geologically alive than anyone expected. New research suggests its outer crust could be churning with ...

The Earth is made of different layers: the core, mantle and crust. Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the Earth is split into plates (pieces of the Earth’s crust). The movement of ...

Name the German geologist who posited an explanation called continental drift, which matured in the next five decades into the theory of plate tectonics. 3. While a variety of ancient philosophers ...

The Earth’s mantle, stretching up to 1,800 miles thick and making up a whopping 84% of the planet’s volume, used to be ...

That comment spawned a whole subreddit with people sharing their "Kevin" stories, and we asked the BuzzFeed Community to ...

Cindy Jenson-Elliott releases her 18th children’s nonfiction book, ‘The Doomsday Detectives,’ about the dinosaurs’ extinction, and will appear at Warwick’s on March 20 ...

Now, scientists have uncovered one of these missing pieces—the Pontus plate—shedding new light ... significant recent discoveries in plate tectonics is the confirmation of the Pontus plate ...