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

During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment the plate ...

Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

Rocks older than 4.03 billion years could shed light on Earth's earliest geological history, but they're incredibly rare.

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's ...

MYSTERIOUS ‘BLOBS’ lurking beneath the Earth’s surface could be responsible for the cataclysmic volcanic eruptions that ...

These mysteries highlight our planet's complexity and the vast realms of knowledge still waiting to be uncovered.

Primordial rocks often get melted and recycled by Earth's moving tectonic plates, making them extremely rare on the surface today. Scientists have uncovered 4 billion-year-old rocks from another ...

Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

There are some weather phenomena that are more surprising than others, but without a doubt, the eruption of lava in ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.