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 ...

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 ...

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

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...