The location of Earth's geographic poles has changed several times over the past 320 million years in a process known as true ...

The ongoing formation of the Apennine mountain range has been a mystery for years, but scientists are starting to piece together its surprising geology.

The first rocks ever returned from the Moon's hidden hemisphere show the same mantle under both faces, so the thick, pale far ...

A new study suggests that a giant section of lower crust beneath Italy is slowly peeling away and sinking into the mantle. Scientists say this “unzipping” could explain much of the earthquake activity ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists say Earth’s crust is slowly ‘unzipping’ beneath Italy’s Apennines, revealing a process that could help explain the ...

Introduction]Beneath our feet, deep within the Earth, lies a massive lump of metal known as the 'inner core'.In recent years, ...

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 ...

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 ...