New details about the crust on Venus include some surprises about the geology of Earth's hotter twin, according to new ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...

"It helps us understand how do you make continents ... Massive ocean discovered beneath the Earth's crust containing more water than on the surface ...

Deep beneath the red soils of Western Australia, an ancient secret lay locked in stone. And through the stubborn durability ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition ... previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the process of subduction, in which one tectonic plate slides under ...

Scientists found new evidence that Earth’s crust is peeling underneath the Sierra Nevada in California. The process might be how the continents formed, they say.

Venus has a crust that is all one piece, with no evidence of subduction caused by plate tectonics like on Earth.

Earth’s uppermost layer, the lithosphere, is made up of the rigid crust and the top part of the mantle, which is in a denser, but more fluid state. This layer also contains Earth’s oceanic ...