This video explores what Earth could look like hundreds of millions of years into the future as continents drift and collide once again. Using plate tectonics, climatology, and paleogeographic models, ...

Deep inside Earth lies a hidden world of "intraterrestrials" that have been dormant for hundreds of thousands of years — what ...

For decades, climate science has treated Earth’s shifting crust as a slow, distant backdrop to the drama of global warming.

Great things can come from failure when it comes to geology. The Midcontinent rift formed about 1.1 billion years ago and ...

The ground beneath northern South America holds memories far older than any city or road. Locked inside ancient volcanic ...

A giant underwater canyon system in the Atlantic appears to have formed through tectonic forces rather than erosion.

Astrobiologists propose that alien civilizations need accessible coal deposits to industrialize exoplanets and become detectable from Earth.

Antigorite is the dominant serpentine mineral in serpentinite, a key target mineral for investigating the physical properties ...

New research shows that a fragile clay layer beneath the Japan Trench played a key role in the extreme seafloor movement during the 2011 earthquake.

Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the Japanese Islands—plates ...

A new study claims that an 80-100-foot-wide layer of clay exacerbated the 2011 earthquake.

Canada’s new consulate in Greenland is a tiny, terracotta-red house co-occupied with the Icelandic government, staffed by a ...