While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, ...

New research has revealed unexpected details about the surface of Venus, Earth’s scorching hot twin. Scientists had long ...

New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth's hotter twin, according to new ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

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

Our new study may offer an answer. Using seismic data from NASA’s InSight mission, we uncovered evidence that the seismic ...

Deep beneath the red soils of Western Australia, an ancient secret lay locked in stone. And through the stubborn durability ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in ...

A recent study reveals that slow ocean expansion 15-6 million years ago caused sea levels to change and drop by up to 30 ...

As the last Ice Age came to an end nearly 10,000 years ago, something unexpected happened deep beneath Earth’s surface. Large ...

Earth’s uppermost layer, the lithosphere, is made up of the rigid crust and the top part of the mantle, which is in a denser, but more fluid state. This layer also contains Earth’s oceanic ...