Commentary: We have people promoting conspiracy “theories” for a variety of reasons. The one thing they all have in common is the lack of verifiable evidence.

Houchin and his colleagues studied dozens of zircon crystals from the Jack Hills in Western Australia. These are the oldest ...

There are many open questions about how our planet formed 4.55 billion years ago: When did plate tectonics start? When did the Earth's mantle begin to vigorously circulate in a process called ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

A continental collision trapped oil within what is today Iran. The same collision explains why that oil is trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz now ...

The King's Trough complex, about 1,000 kilometers (roughly 600 miles) off the coast of Portugal, is known as the 'Grand ...

About 1000 kilometers off the coast of Portugal, hidden beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, lies one of the most interesting geological features on Earth. Stretching roughly 500 kilometers, the ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.