A chunk of ancient oceanic crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is pulling parts of North America's crust down into the ...

A devastating environmental collapse that began in the 1960s is still leaving deep marks beneath the surface of the Earth.

Additionally, the discovery of two “giant blobs” deep inside the Earth has sparked debates among experts about how and why ...

As a result, large parts of North America are losing material from the ... which was published March 28 in the journal Nature ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in blobs of rock.

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Imagine if Earth's history had a mystery novel, and one of its biggest unsolved puzzles was: Where did all the nitrogen go?

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process ...