The Konya Basin, situated in Central Anatolia, Turkey, is exhibiting signs of rapid ground subsidence, despite being part of ...

Far beneath central Turkey, a dense slab of rock is peeling away from the bottom of the continent and sinking into the mantle ...

Researchers have confirmed that a rare geological process called lithospheric dripping is pulling pieces of the Earth’s lower ...

Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...

Our nearest neighbor, the moon, is still something of a mystery to us. For decades, scientists have wondered why it appears ...

Discover what the most abundant element on Earth is. Learn why iron dominates the planet, which elements rule the crust and ...

Since the Moon's formation, asteroid impacts have been the dominant exogenous geological process, creating craters and basins ...

Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

A research team led by Prof. TIAN Hengci from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

Potassium is volatile and can easily vapourise under extreme heat. The study suggests that the Moon’s far-side mantle ...

Earth’s deep interior may hold water equal to today’s oceans, challenging long-held views of how the planet became habitable.

Long-term satellite measurements show that Earth’s magnetic field is changing faster and more unevenly than expected, driven ...