The discovery of a new lifeform within Earth’s crust has sent ripples through the scientific community, challenging our ...

A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Rocks from the Rio Grande continental rift have provided a rare snapshot of active geology deep inside Earth's crust, revealing new evidence for how continents remain stable over billions of years ...

Geology; Earth's crust may be building mountains by dripping into the mantle . News. By Stephanie Pappas published 9 October 2024 An odd phenomenon called lithospheric dripping might occur ...

Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why. A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because planet-wide glaciers buried the evidence.

Scientists believed that Venus' crust was continuously thickening, in the absence of mechanisms like plate tectonics. However, a publication in Nature Communications proposes a new model based on ...

Sunrise over Ahu Tongariki Moai in Easter Island, Chile. The discovery of crystal "time capsules" on the island has challenged the idea that the Earth’s crust and mantle might move together like ...

Jostling in Venus’ crust could reveal clues about Earth’s early geology. Venusian ‘campi’ behave differently than our ... his team has discovered 58 unique crustal blocks on Venus’ crust.

"It resets the playing field for how the geology, crust and atmosphere on Venus work together." Venus, often written off as a geologically dead world, is far more active beneath its blistering ...

As you may recall learning in geology class, the Earth is made up of distinct layers. The further one goes towards the center of the planet, the more intense the heat and pressure becomes. Luckily ...