A research team led by Academician Jin Zhijun from the Institute of Energy, Peking University, has revealed how interactions ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

Millions of years before blue oceans and wandering continents, the Earth in its early days was a molten, tumultuous planet — ...

Earth’s interior remains one of the most enigmatic realms of science, with its deepest regions yet to fully reveal their ...

A massive, mysterious hole has been discovered in the Indian Ocean, and scientists are unraveling what lies beneath.

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

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 ...

When a slab slides beneath an overriding plate in a subduction zone, the slab takes on a property called anisotropy, meaning ...

The data center as we know it is being reimagined as an “AI factory” – a power- and data-optimized plant that turns energy ...

A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die ...

The surface of Venus is scoured with strange, quasi-circular features called coronae. Unlike anything seen on Earth today, they can stretch hundreds of miles in diameter, even going past the thousand ...