Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

Like a moth in a cocoon, the metamorphosis of Earth's crust from molten goop to solid land is hidden from view, leaving ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian ...

The findings could impact how we understand the composition of the land we walk on, together with our understanding of volcanic activity and earthquake risk ...

Greece's government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island ...

The phenomenon has been happening for millions of years quietly beneath our feet and could shed new light on how the ...

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

As the process continued, the descending oceanic plate functions like an anchor, dragging down the Earth's crust and forming a vast depression that has accumulated millions of years' worth of ...