A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances (2025), scientists uncovered a fascinating and unusual process ...

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Scientific exploration fueled the attempt by Chinese engineers to drill into the core of the planet and study its features. The digging of China’s first borehole over 10,000 meters (32,808 feet) deep ...

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

The world's unrelenting need for energy, as well as increasingly warm temperatures, is making the need for clean sources of power abundantly clear. And while solar, wind, and hydropower are all ...

South African diamonds have revealed nickel-rich metallic inclusions, offering the first direct evidence of reactions predicted to occur deep in Earth’s mantle. The study shows how oxidized melts ...