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

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

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

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

A first thought when describing a rock formation likely isn't a mille-feuille, but there are actually certain types composed ...

Interest is growing in fracking techniques pioneered by the oil and gas industry for use in tapping the earth’s crust for power ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Here’s what you’ll learn in this story: What are now thought to be the oldest rocks on Earth have been ...

As early as 2024, scientists from the US and China discovered that the Earth’s core had slowed down and even stopped moving in relation to the Earth’s crust. But until now, the general public—that’s ...

Decades of asteroid dust rained down to form what is now known as the iridium anomaly, a thin layer of rock that has 80 times more iridium than anywhere else in Earth's crust, Gulick said. While ...