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 ...

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

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.

The Konya Basin in Central Anatolia, Turkey, is showing evidence of rapid ground sinking, while being part of a larger region ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. The chemistry of crystals in some of Earth’s oldest rocks may ...