Earth-like planets have a thin crust, a large mantle (which contains a lot of molten magma), and a core. Inside these ...

More than 1,400 microearthquakes shake Tenerife in 14 hours and trigger scientific alert in Las Cañadas del Teide.

In northeast Ethiopia, the rift shoved continental plates apart by 25 feet in just a few days, completely shocking ...

Earth's ocean floor is not just steadily pulling apart; new research reveals rapid, dynamic cracking along mid-ocean ridges.

The Apollo missions changed how scientists understand the moon. Returning with Artemis could help solve some of the biggest lunar mysteries.

For most of deep time, spreading ridges released more carbon than volcano chains, changing how we interpret Earth’s climate history.

About 56 million years ago, Europe and North America began pulling apart to form what became the ever-expanding North Atlantic Ocean. Vast amounts of molten rock from Earth's mantle reached the ocean ...

When tens of thousands of earthquakes shook Santorini, the cause wasn’t just shifting tectonic plates—it was rising magma. Scientists tracked about 300 million cubic meters of molten rock pushing up ...

The changes are most visible in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia. Scientists say that the Gulf of Aden and the Red ...

Over the last 10 years or so, I’ve featured numerous articles about the Yellowstone supervolcano. We know that it is located ...

A new scientific revelation reveals that deep in the Earth’s core lies a good amount of hydrogen as well as a large amount of iron. While the iron in the core has always been recognized as dominant, ...

The mechanisms underlying two important phenomena in the Archean—the emergence of continental crust and the presence of an exceptionally strong geomagnetic field—remain poorly understood. Notably, ...