Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

New research suggests melting ice sheets are warming global temperatures which may speed up continental drift, creating ...

Scientists have discovered an unusually thick mantle transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles. This discovery sheds new light on how oceanic plates sink into the Earth's mantle. Variations ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, around 10,000 years ago, the melting of massive glaciers may have done more than just raise ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

Two continents collided millions of years ago, forming a bridge that changed Earth's climate system and triggered one of ...

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep ...

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

Federal cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey have prompted fears of losing vital information on earthquake activity and ...

Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed ...