In a recent study, researchers from Curtin University and the Geological Survey of Western Australia unearthed compelling ...

Hold onto your sense of balance. Scientists have found fresh proof that Earth doesn't just drift through space — sometimes, ...

Scientists have discovered massive underground oceans trapped beneath Earth’s crust, potentially containing more water than ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in ...

The CIA once classified a strange book by Dr. Chan Thomas, The Adam and Eve Story, which describes a doomsday scenario: a sudden pole shift that flips the Earth’s crust, obliterating entire continents ...

Scientists have discovered the elusive properties hidden within promethium, a rare earth element that has remained largely ...

before pulling it down into the Earth's mantle. This phenomenon is gradually stripping away material from the bottom of the continent's crust. Using a high-resolution seismic technique called full ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition ... a geophysicist at Queensland University of Technology in Australia, told Live Science. "Yes, that signature forms today [through ...

Rare earth elements are critical to many industries—used in electric motors, medical imaging and diagnostics, oil and gas ...