Cratons are thick and relatively cold, making them very durable during earth’s history. Continents, and their craton cores, ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances (2025), scientists uncovered a fascinating and unusual process ...

Human water management contributes to sinking land across the globe, and it may also be responsible for an unexpected rise ...

A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...

NASA researchers have found new evidence that Saturn's ice moon Enceladus could possess the proper conditions to harbor life. The research, using data collected by previous space missions, suggests ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

An earthquake of magnitude 3.6 struck Myanmar today at 03:43 am IST, as per the National Centre for Seismology. The ...

Two earthquakes struck Myanmar, with magnitudes of 3.6 and 3.1 occurring on October 3 and 2, 2025, respectively.

Study finds evidence of a possible star explosion 10 million years ago by discovering unusually high levels of cosmic rays in ...

A first thought when describing a rock formation likely isn't a mille-feuille, but there are actually certain types composed of many thin layers that bring the flaky pastry to mind. Not only that—but ...

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...