Strong new evidence suggests that primordial material from the planet’s center is somehow making its way out. Continent-size ...

Mars is usually a safe 225 million kilometers away from Earth, but what if the red planet went off course and headed straight ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Tectonic plates are made up of Earth’s crust and the rigid top layer of the mantle, known as the lithospheric mantle.

The changing of Earth's crust is a topic that is still being studied. Plate tectonics as they are currently known likely occurred during the past billion years, according to a 2021 study.

This "virtual Earth" is the first computer model that "views" the crust and mantle as an interconnected, dynamic system, the researchers reported Oct. 30 in the journal Science Advances.

New Jersey experiences earthquakes due to the fault line running through the state. Here is the science behind the cause and the Ramapo Fault.

The outer regions of the Earth ’s geology can be broken down into two parts: a crust and upper mantle that form rigid plates of solid rock, the lithosphere; and the hotter, more pressurized ...

Given that all of the Hawaiian Islands were created by volcanic activity, it is somewhat surprising that only one of the islands possesses any active volcanoes. Why did the volcanoes that built ...

West Virginians may not typically feel earthquakes, but special equipment across the Mountain State is actively detecting ...

The plates of the Earth's crust perform complicated movements that can be attributed to quite simple mechanisms. That is the short version of the explanation of a rift that began to tear the world ...