Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms ...

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 ...

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

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

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Your first thought when describing a rock formation likely isn't a mille-feuille, but there are actually certain types ...

But it wasn't till 1980, when geologist Luis Alvarez and colleagues found a global band of iridium in Earth's crust dating to the end of the Cretaceous period, that the potential stakes of such a ...

New research has found that amino acids, the building blocks of life, may have traveled to Earth on interstellar dust grains, ...

A rock described as a flaky pastry may sound delicate, but researchers at Tohoku University found that when they fold under ...