The Earth's crust is doing something pretty intense—it’s slowly breaking apart! Scientists say tectonic plates, those massive ...

The extreme conditions of inner Earth make it impossible to explore. But seismic waves during earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and light waves from the Sun all have helped reveal fascinating insights ...

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...

The final frontier isn’t space: It’s Earth itself. We’ve sent people to the Moon, robots to Mars and the New Horizons space probe 3.26 billion miles from Earth to snap photos of Pluto, while just ...

Earth’s tilt recently made headlines when scientists revealed it had deviated 31.5 inches. That data came from a June study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, that found human ...

Geoscientists have made an unprecedented achievement on their 60-year quest to know more about Earth's mysterious depths. Pieces of Earth’s rocky mantle were collected by a drilling vessel called the ...

Our planet was born around 4.5 billion years ago. To understand this mind-bendingly long history, we need to study rocks and the minerals they are made of. The oldest rocks in Australia, which are ...