The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die and form new geological boundaries. With unprecedented clarity, researchers ...

A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances (2025), scientists uncovered a fascinating and unusual process ...

The Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it. Now, if you’re a geologist, or got a keen interest in how the Earth is put together, then this ...

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 ...

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...

The world's unrelenting need for energy, as well as increasingly warm temperatures, is making the need for clean sources of power abundantly clear. And while solar, wind, and hydropower are all ...

Just over 4 billion years ago, magma from Earth’s mantle infiltrated a fracture in the young planet’s primordial crust. Over the following aeons, nearly all of the planet’s early crust melted back ...

A first thought when describing a rock formation likely isn't a mille-feuille, but there are actually certain types composed of many thin layers that bring the flaky pastry to mind. Not only that—but ...

The quake's epicenter was located 69.3 miles east of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, which has a population of around ...