Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Earth's atmosphere is divided into several distinct layers, each characterized by specific temperature variations, composition, and phenomena. Below are the primary layers of the atmosphere, from the ...

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging ... "The mantle processes driving the dripping can influence how tectonic plates evolve over time, but they are very slow going," said the ...