The location of Earth's geographic poles has changed several times over the past 320 million years in a process known as true ...

Several times since the age of dinosaurs, the solid part of our planet has rolled over, drowning some continents and lifting ...

A chunk of the Earth's crust is missing and scientists have discovered where it is ...

The ongoing formation of the Apennine mountain range has been a mystery for years, but scientists are starting to piece together its surprising geology.

Scientists did not arrive at Earth’s age from one clue. Several very different measurements keep pointing toward the same ...

Researchers have spent decades hunting for clues about the origins of the process that moves the continents around. Its deep history is finally starting to come into focus. Earth’s outer shell ...

Scientists say Earth’s crust is slowly ‘unzipping’ beneath Italy’s Apennines, revealing a process that could help explain the ...

Introduction]Beneath our feet, deep within the Earth, lies a massive lump of metal known as the 'inner core'.In recent years, ...

Earth’s tilt recently made headlines when scientists revealed it had deviated 31.5 inches. That data came from a June study, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, that found human ...

Earth is the planet we have the best opportunity to understand in detail—helping us see how other rocky planets behave, even ...

Seismic data like the lines pictured on this 3D map help scientists understand the structure of the earth's core. This particular map helps scientists at Chesapeake Energy’s Oklahoma City headquarters ...