In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports ...

A new study has found that most rare earth deposits – sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy ...

A new study suggests rare earth elements form in magma above ancient subduction zones, as that magma reacts with substances ...

A new geological study reshapes the timeline of a major tectonic collision that helped form the Andes, suggesting key events occurred earlier than long assumed.

A lot of research goes into determining how to best predict the next eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Part of this ...

The interpretation that the subduction zone is winding down gets ahead of the science. What the new research actually shows ...

A piece of Earth that scientists thought had vanished hundreds of millions of years ago has quietly turned up under the coast of Northern California. The long-lost Pioneer fragment, once part of the ...

The Earth’s crust is constantly changing. It’s currently made of many huge rock slabs called tectonic plates—seven major ones along with many more smaller plates—that fit together like puzzle pieces ...

Scientists say they have uncovered new clues in Australia about when plate tectonics began on Earth, the only known planet to have the geological process.

The researchers studied the East Pilbara Craton formation in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, seen here. - Roger Norman/Alamy Stock Photo The puzzle pieces of Earth’s rocky crust are slowly and ...

We're going back to science class to ask: When did Earth’s crust start breaking apart and moving? Well, scientists say they may now have a new answer. We break down what they've discovered in The ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest direct evidence yet that Earth’s tectonic plates were on the move 3.5 billion years ago. By analyzing magnetic fingerprints in ancient rocks, they reconstructed ...