Most of the time, the shape of Earth’s magnetic field is quite similar to that which would be produced by a bar magnet ...

It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home ...

The findings come in the background of data obtained by NASA’s Perseverance rover that revealed evidence of wave-formed beaches and rocks, altered by subsurface water in a Martian crater that ...

Quiet state parks, unusual geological features, and scenic river valleys make these overlooked Pennsylvania nature spots ...

How moving tectonic plates and rising heat from deep within Earth created one of the ocean’s largest canyons. On land, giant canyons like the Grand Canyon are usually the slow handiwork of rivers that ...

When the plate boundary later moved farther south toward the modern Azores, the formation of the King’s Trough also came to a halt.” It’s a remarkable example of how activity deep within our planet’s ...

Mantle plumes beneath volcanic hotspots, like Hawaii, Iceland, and the Galapagos, seem to be anchored into a large structure within the core-mantle boundary (CMB). A new study, published in Science ...