What roils beneath the Earth’s surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean ...

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep ...

A rare geological process is tearing the Indian Plate apart deep beneath the surface, scientists have discovered. In a study ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

Scientists previously assumed the Indian plate slid smoothly beneath Asia. The process was assumed to lift the mountains ...

Indian tectonic plate is splitting beneath the Himalayas, revealing a dramatic twist in Earth's tectonic history, scientists ...

Researchers may have found clues of possible ancient life beneath Mars' surface thanks to the Perseverance rover.

Scientists just discovered a new phylum of microbes in Earth’s Critical Zone. The Critical Zone—also known as the planet’s ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered a missing piece in the puzzle of Mars' past atmosphere. Scientists discovered ...

The land beneath the former Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is rising and will continue to do so for many decades. Now, scientists have an explanation that involves the sea drying up.

For decades, scientists debated whether the Indian Plate was simply underplating — slipping beneath Tibet’s crust — or ...