Recent scientific discoveries reveal two extraordinary phenomena that could change our understanding of Earth's hydrology.

Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have persisted for hundreds of millions of years, others have vanished, sinking ...

Stromatolites: You Can't Spell Mold Without Old One of the big problems with Kelvin's estimates for the age of the Earth was ...

The mantle of the Earth, up to 1,800 miles (2,900 kms) thick and 84% of the Earth's volume, was assumed to be a simple ...

Like straight out of Julio Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, scientists from Northwestern University and the ...

Earth is also the only planet in our solar system known to have plate tectonics, or pieces of the crust that move around and smash into each other. Increasingly, scientists believe that plate ...

Scientists have long been puzzled by volcanoes that erupt far from the edges of tectonic plates—known as intraplate volcanoes ...

Evidence of elevated volcanic activity indicate eruption of Alaska's Mount Spurr volcano could happen within weeks or months, ...

Rare earth minerals, a blanket term for 17 metallic ... the rock formation in which the material is found. Due to tectonic plate movements that create favorable conditions for mining, certain ...

Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate ... in rainfall and snowmelt can alter the pressure on tectonic plate boundaries. While these factors may not be the main drivers of ...