A large chunk of the Earth's crust is missing but scientists have now discovered where it is located. The world is constantly throwing puzzling questions at scientists, with new technology like space ...

Woman accused of leading police on a long chase appears in court in wheelchair A woman accused of trying to hit a police officer with her minivan before leading police on a long chase that ended in a ...

A recently published study has revealed a little-known tectonic process unfolding beneath Turkey’s Central Anatolian Plateau, where part of the Earth’s crust is “dripping” deep into the planet’s ...

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.

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research finds. This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously ...