A new study has found that most rare earth deposits – sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy ...

This video reconstructs Pangaea, the supercontinent that existed around 200 million years ago when all modern continents were ...

A new look at the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate beneath the coast of northern Oregon suggests this subducting slab is shallower ...

Slow roiling convection currents deep within Earth's mantle, which are associated with the movements of tectonic plates, also ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, Earth’s magnetic field behaved in a way that has long baffled scientists, showing wild and seemingly chaotic shifts unlike anything seen before or since. A new study ...

Nenshi noted that UCP members of the boundaries commission “unanimously accepted and put out an insane minority report, a ...

Far beyond the reach of any spacecraft, a distant world glows with heat so intense that rock itself turns to vapor. In that ...

This year continues to be a relatively quiet year from an earthquake and tsunami perspective. Four earthquakes have made it ...

Sunken slabs from long-lost tectonic plates are still churning around in Earth's interior, far below your feet. In a new study, geologists have attempted to map the base of the mantle, close to where ...

Chinese scientists have conducted a detailed "chemical element checkup" of the mud and sand at the bottom of China's eastern ...

Deep within Earth, subtle variations in how seismic waves travel are revealing a hidden pattern of deformation in the planet’s lowest mantle layer.