For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

Earth is not a quiet rock in space. Deep inside, there is a molten interior that stays extremely hot, shifting slowly and ...

Subduction zones can look permanent on a map. They run for hundreds or thousands of miles, haul oceanic crust into the mantle ...

In a time where humanity is already threatening to destroy the world, the last thing we need is planet Earth to literally ...

Fossils in China reveal early life that predates animals and show that ancient ecosystems were more complex than previously ...

A new geological study reshapes the timeline of a major tectonic collision that helped form the Andes, suggesting key events ...

Earth's shallow ocean contained oxygen earlier than expected, rewriting the history of the origin of life during the "Boring ...

As measures to protect sea turtles ebb and flow, the turtle’s “lost years” spent out at sea after they hatch on beaches along ...

Just before 9 a.m. EDT on March 17, a meteor entered the atmosphere over Lake Erie and caused a sonic boom recorded on video ...

Some parts of this epic coral reef system weren’t even where the greatest reefs are found today. But remnants have survived.

There's a chance even more earthquakes will occur in the same area, a USGS research geologist told Newsweek.