In 1981, scientists discovered one of the thinnest portions of the Earth’s crust — a 1-mile (1.6 kilometers) thick, earthquake-prone spot under the Atlantic Ocean where the American and African ...

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that Earth's continents are continuously reworked deep beneath the surface, offering ...

Earthquakes that jiggle Earth's middle layer may be more widespread than scientists thought. A new map of these mysterious deep earthquakes shows that they occur all around the world and that they may ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Like a mosquito tunneling into the skin to get at the rich feast within, geologists poked a long, narrow drill into Earth's crust ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Earth's mantle might not always move along in lockstep with the ...

Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...

Earth's crust is dripping "like honey" into our planet's hot interior beneath the Andes mountains, scientists have discovered. By setting up a simple experiment in a sandbox and comparing the results ...

In 2005, I was navigating winding roads through the Drakensberg Mountains, in Lesotho, Southern Africa. Towering cliff-like features known as escarpments interrupt the landscape, rising up by a ...

South of India, the ocean surface slumps into one of Earth’s strangest depressions, a gravity hole so deep it has puzzled ...

Scientists discovered how Earth recycles continents deep underground, shaping the unusual rocks found in ancient mountain ...