Isotope mapping reveals millions of square kilometers of lost Gondwanan crust hidden beneath Asia, Europe and North America.

The contradictory geology of the Apennines has long puzzled scientists. (Paolo Corsetti/Moment/Getty Images) Deep beneath our ...

Scientists studying Italy’s Apennine Mountains found the Earth’s crust slowly separating and sinking beneath the surface, ...

Deep beneath Italy, a slow geological process is reshaping the Apennine Mountains in a way scientists did not fully ...

Massive ocean discovered beneath the Earth's crust containing more water than on the surface ...

Researchers trained an AI model to identify signals in the Earth’s core-mantle boundary that could be harbingers of tectonic activity.

Ancient rocks from Western Australia suggest water was reaching deep inside Earth more than three billion years ago, long before modern plate tectonics may have fully developed. Researchers propose ...

Researchers have spent decades hunting for clues about the origins of the process that moves the continents around. Its deep history is finally starting to come into focus. Earth’s outer shell ...

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 ...