The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

This hidden geological layer, located between 254 and 410 miles (410 and 660 kilometers) beneath the Earth’s surface, covers ...

BEIJING -- The latest discovery from rock samples returned by China's Chang'e 6 lunar mission reveals that the moon's mantle ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, ...

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

US Geological Survey geologists estimated large potential for—and large uncertainty about—the amount of hydrogen ...

Analysis of samples brought back from the farside of the Moon by the Chang'e 6 mission have found the water content of the ...

Using samples gathered from the Chang’e-6 mission, scientists found that the interior of the moon on the half we never see ...

Chinese scientists analyzing samples from the Moon’s farside have uncovered that its mantle holds significantly less water ...