For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

In recent years, science has unveiled some astonishing secrets—from what lurks inside black holes to the discovery of a vast ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be ...

The rocks are formed of countless sedimentary layers ... The Arabian and Eurasian plates are still converging, and recent ...

"Rock takes a really long time to warm up or ... This layer also contains Earth's oceanic crust — a thinner and denser layer below the oceans — and the continental crust that sits above ...