A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...

A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die and form new geological boundaries. With unprecedented clarity, researchers ...

With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate dives beneath another—actively breaking apart. The discovery, reported in ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances (2025), scientists uncovered a fascinating and unusual process ...

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 ...

For billions of years, Earth’s continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems ...

The record-breaking mission offers an unprecedented opportunity to study the geology of our planet’s largest layer.

At a busy street crossing, people wait for the signal to change. When one person steps out first, others soon follow. Scientists in Amsterdam have found that this same kind of behavior happens at a ...

Evidence points to a long-lost ocean beneath Ariel’s icy crust. Tides and orbit shifts may have cracked its surface billions of years ago. Growing evidence indicates that a deep ocean may lie hidden ...

Concentrated hydrogen in the galaxy’s spiral arms can be locked away in zircon crystals, providing startling clues about the ...

A first thought when describing a rock formation likely isn't a mille-feuille, but there are actually certain types composed of many thin layers that bring the flaky pastry to mind. Not only that—but ...