The mid-ocean ridge runs through the oceans like a suture. Where Earth's plates move apart, new oceanic crust is continuously ...

Image: Tiny crystals called zircons are used to date oceanic crust. A newly developed method that detects tiny bits of zircon in rock reliably predicts the age of ocean crust more than 99 percent of ...

An ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a mantle plume. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

An upside-down piece of hidden ocean crust has been revealed by mysterious seismic signals. The seismic waves, which came from an underground 2010 magnitude 6.3 earthquake in Spain, led scientists to ...

In 1981, scientists discovered one of the thinnest portions of the Earth’s crust — a 1-mile (1.6 kilometers) thick, earthquake-prone spot under the Atlantic Ocean where the American and African ...

The ocean rarely raises its voice. Instead, it leaves behind signs — subtle, intricate and enduring — for those willing to ...

A year and a half after the end of its mission, NASA’s InSight Mars lander may have just helped scientists find enough water to fill an ocean. Deep beneath NASA’s InSight lander (RIP InSight), an ...

President Donald Trump is laser-focused on securing high-value critical minerals for the United States, whether through pushing to buy Greenland or demanding a share of Ukraine’s resources. But ...

The Bermuda Triangle may not be the biggest mystery of the Atlantic. In a new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, scientists believe they have discovered the reason why ...

Scientists have shown how the freezing of a ‘slushy’ ocean of magma may be responsible for the composition of the Moon’s crust. The scientists, from the University of Cambridge and the Ecole normale ...