But to find that complexity, we must take the lessons of the boring billion to heart. Planets are not just a stage on which ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Earth's crust, or the outermost shell of the planet, has drastically changed throughout geologic history, mostly due to the ...

It feels like there have been staggering science stories emerging every other day recently, all of which have blown our tiny ...

A large chunk of the Earth's crust is missing but scientists have now discovered where it is located. The world is constantly throwing puzzling questions at scientists, with new technology like space ...

A new study suggests that the planet’s icy interior and liquid ocean could be insulated with a three-to-six-mile-thick layer ...

A 6-mile-think shell of methane ice on Saturn's moon Titan could assist in the hunt for life signs arising from this moon's ...

Scientists observed that all examined craters are situated within 30 degrees of the equator. This concentrated impact area, ...

Earth’s solid outer layer, which includes the crust and the uppermost mantle, is called the lithosphere. It is between 36 and 87 miles (60 and 140 kilometers) thick, a 2023 study in the journal ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

Even the criteria used to define a continent is fraught, with some geologists arguing for the existence of “Zealandia” and ...

The Earth is a complex system, and understanding the processes happening between the crust and the stratosphere is an ...