Plate tectonics has shaped the Earth’s surface for billions of years: Continents and oceanic crust have pushed and pulled on each other, continually rearranging the planet’s façade. As two massive ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Research shows the Pacific hemisphere is losing heat faster than the African hemisphere. The heat is from Earth’s molten interior, which causes ...

Scientists say they have found geochemical traces of Earth’s ancient self hidden far below our feet, suggesting that parts of the planet that existed before the Moon-forming collision 4.5 billion ...

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. French novelist Jules Verne delighted 19th-century ...