Volatiles are crucial for sustaining life and Earth's habitability, with subduction zones being the main pathways for these ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

Tectonic shifts could lead Africa to split into two continents, and although some argue that these images provid evidence, ...

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 ...

Unlike oil or coal, hydrogen doesn’t need to be burned. When used in fuel cells or combustion engines, its only emission is ...

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.

Cores extracted from the impact crater revealed evidence of an ancient, life-nurturing hydrothermal system in the wake of the ...