The Earth’s crust is disappearing right beneath our feet – and most people don’t even realise it. Now, if you’re a geologist, ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model.Image credit: Adapted from Zhao, ...

Fuji Electric, a Japanese manufacturing company, will provide the power-generating equipment for a $500 million geothermal ...

Geologists have long debated whether a stony formation in Canada contains the world’s oldest rocks – new measurements make a ...

Earth's crust "floats" on top of the soft plastic-like mantle below. In some instances mantle clearly drives changes in the crust, as in the Hawaiian Islands. However, ...

Scientists agreed the rocky outcrops in a remote part of Quebec, Canada, were ancient. But were they really Earth’s oldest?

First, Earth has a thin, rocky crust that we live on at the surface. Then, underneath the crust is a very thick layer of solid rock called the mantle. Finally, ...

Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why. A fifth of Earth’s geologic history might have vanished because planet-wide glaciers buried the evidence.

Earth's hot, gooey center and its cold, hard outer shell are both responsible for the creeping (and sometimes catastrophic) movement of tectonic plates. But now new research reveals an intriguing ...

Earth's crust is dripping "like honey" into our planet's hot interior beneath the Andes mountains, scientists have discovered.