A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...
In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances (2025), scientists uncovered a fascinating and unusual process ...
With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...
The world's unrelenting need for energy, as well as increasingly warm temperatures, is making the need for clean sources of power abundantly clear. And while solar, wind, and hydropower are all ...
Something strange is happening underwater, off the coast of Norway—and it’s not just another seafloor oddity. These odd structures, now called sinkites, are turning our understanding of Earth’s layers ...
Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...
The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...
Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...
South African diamonds have revealed nickel-rich metallic inclusions, offering the first direct evidence of reactions predicted to occur deep in Earth’s mantle. The study shows how oxidized melts ...