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

As the Aral Sea has been drained by irrigation and dried up, the mass loss on the surface has caused Earth’s upper mantle to rise up, lifting the emptied sea bed an average of 7 millimetres per year ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

Earth's magnetic field flips every 200,000 to 300,000 years on average, but it's been 780,000 years since the last one.