LOS ANGELES (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - A published study claims the Earth's crust is peeling. Scientists have discovered evidence that the Earth's crust is peeling away beneath California's Sierra Nevada ...

Beneath the picturesque peaks of California’s Sierra Nevada lies a phenomenon that could change our understanding of the planet’s geology. Recent research has uncovered evidence suggesting that ...

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Orbital data reveals that rocks transforming deep inside the Earth may be responsible for changes to our planet’s gravitational field.

The findings suggest Earth’s geological story was partly written in the stars – specifically, in the spiral arms of our home ...

Rocks in Australia preserve evidence that plates in Earth’s crust were moving 3.5 billion years ago, a finding that pushes back the beginnings of plate tectonics by hundreds of millions of years.

Tens of thousands of earthquakes shook the Greek island of Santorini and the surrounding area at the beginning of the year.

Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is ...

(CNN) — Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed something odd — a series of deep earthquakes that had occurred under the ...