Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

A moderate 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck Pakistan, with tremors felt in Jammu and Kashmir. The earthquake, occurring at a ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

Peter R. Orszag, the C.E.O. of Lazard, discusses how markets are reacting to the uncertainty of Trump’s tariffs.

A surprising new discovery suggests that the Indian Plate is splitting into two, with a portion of it sinking into the mantle ...

Despite being tied together beneath the surface, these regions diverge sharply above it. Iceland and the Azores are politically and culturally European. Cuba is firmly part of Latin America, while the ...

Creating new unitary councils could disrupt some of the biggest social care systems in the country, writes an independent ...

In the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from any continent, Easter Island rises out of the sea. Its surface ...