A major fault in central Turkey is defying decades of scientific belief, tearing the Earth open in a way no one expected.

You have probably seen the images of the surface of Mars, beamed back by NASA's rovers. What if there were a time machine ...

The timing and rate of early crustal growth on Earth remains contentious due to the scarcity of very ancient rocks,” are ...

Deep down, beneath the icy edges of the Greenland Sea, a remarkable and previously undiscovered geological and biological ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

This 20-kilometer-thick anomaly isn’t tied to any known volcanic system and its mysterious origin could change Earth science ...

The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to study.

Scientists have taken an important step toward solving one of the biggest mysteries in planetary science: why Earth is covered in moving tectonic plates, while its nearly identical sister planet, ...

LSU scientists have discovered a subduction zone decaying near Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada that sheds light on how tectonic plates on the Earth’s surface evolve. A Science Advances ...