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

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

The Earth’s crust is constantly changing. It’s currently made of many huge rock slabs called tectonic plates—seven major ones along with many more smaller plates—that fit together like puzzle pieces ...

Something unusual is happening deep beneath Italy, where a hidden layer of Earth’s crust appears to be peeling away and sinking into the mantle. Scientists say this slow-motion geological process, ...

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

Billion-Year-Old Zircons Tell the Story of the Earliest CrustAbout 160 million years have passed since the birth of the Earth ...

What Earth do you live on? A round one? Flat one? Maybe your world is resting on the back of a huge cosmic turtle? What about a hollow Earth? Just a planet’s shell levitating around absolutely nothing ...

China has unveiled its first ocean drilling vessel, the Mengxiang, which is designed to carry out an unprecedented mission: drilling through the Earth’s crust. If successful, this will mark humanity’s ...

A new study suggests that a giant section of lower crust beneath Italy is slowly peeling away and sinking into the mantle. Scientists say this “unzipping” could explain much of the earthquake activity ...

Studies of rocks from Earth's crust suggest that the lower crust is a good thermal insulator. The knock-on effects of this finding are many — one being the crust's increased potential to generate more ...