At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how the continents were formed.

Las Vegas locals began a project in the 1990s to protect a geological marvel at the edge of town. They made educational signs ...

NASA's Perseverance collects the “Silver Mountain” sample in Jezero, revealing geological secrets and possible traces of ...

Scientists have discovered portions of the Earth's crust sinking into the mantle beneath ... The southern section of the mountain range shows evidence of dense material that sank into the mantle ...

Volcanic eruptions release molten lava that reshapes the landscape, creating new landforms like lava plateaus and islands.

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...