Picture your sidewalk on a scorching summer day. You've probably seen how the concrete expands and contracts with temperature ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought — and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life. When you ...

Modern continental rocks carry chemical signatures from the very start of our planet's history, challenging current theories about plate tectonics. Researchers have made a new discovery that changes ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds. This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks ...

A man is missing after falling into a crack in the ground that opened up due to recent volcanic activity on Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula, according to local reports. The man had been working to ...

LOS ANGELES (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A published study claims the Earth's crust is peeling. Scientists have discovered evidence that the Earth's crust is peeling away beneath California's Sierra Nevada ...

A Facebook video shows aerial footage of what appears to be large fissures or cracks in the Earth. "The day the Earth moved- This's the fracture of earth's crust after earthquake," reads the video's ...

Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite image of the Dickson Fjord in East Greenland. (Credit: Thomas Monahan.) (CN) — When the Earth started pulsing every 90 seconds in September 2023, scientists didn’t know ...

Why do some earthquakes release more energy than others? A research team led by Prof. Dr. Armin Dielforder from the ...