Several times since the age of dinosaurs, the solid part of our planet has rolled over, drowning some continents and lifting ...

Earth’s center of mass is constantly on the move, shifting by a few millimeters as enormous amounts of water, ice, and even ...

When most of us think about what shaped our planet, we probably picture volcanoes, earthquakes, and huge continents slowly drifting apart (or back together again) over millions or billions of years.

Earth's crust unzipping beneath Italy may explain seismic activity in the Apennine Mountains.

Spiral Galaxy from Kirkland et al. CREDIT Chris Kirkland and colleagues. A new study of zircon crystals from two of Earth’s oldest continents indicates that the formation of Earth’s continental crust ...

Sea-level changes offer an independent record of dramatic Jurassic and Cretaceous episodes when the solid Earth may have ...

As early as 2024, scientists from the US and China discovered that the Earth’s core had slowed down and even stopped moving in relation to the Earth’s crust. But until now, the general public—that’s ...

Asteroids and planetesimals regularly bombarded Earth between about 4.6 billion and 3.5 billion years ago, during the Hadean and Archean eons. Because few rocks today are more than 4 billion years old ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks ...

Something unusual is happening deep beneath Italy, where a hidden layer of Earth’s crust appears to be peeling away and sinking into the mantle. Scientists say this slow-motion geological process, ...