Mountains may look timeless, but they are constantly changing. Some continue to rise while others stop growing because ...

In the 45°C heat of the midday April sun, I swing my sledgehammer into the terracotta-varnished lobes of pillow basalt ...

Researchers studying ancient rocks from Western Australia's Pilbara Craton found evidence that water was moving deep into ...

Earlier study of the region had shown that the spreading in the area occurs at an average rate of a bit over 60 millimeters a ...

Water may have been shaping Earth’s deep interior far earlier than many geologists thought. In rocks more than 3 billion years old from Western Australia, a research team found chemical signs that ...

Geoscientists at the University of Glasgow have helped reveal new evidence about the formation of one of the highest ...

Discover 25 mind-blowing facts about the continents and plates beneath your feet! Explore Earth's restless geology, from ...

Geologists studying some of the planet’s oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major ...

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how water shaped Earth’s evolution three billion years ago ...

The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe. Scientists have now documented ...

The African Plate is pushing northward into Eurasia. Tectonic research shows that this ongoing collision is squeezing and ...