But the sturdy plate — inscribed with far more than the poignant words of Limón — also has a twin that sits on our planet. The replica is at the Brand Library & Art Center in Glendale, California, and ...

Tiny minerals are revolutionizing our understanding of textbooks. Easter Island consists of several extinct volcanoes. The ...

On present-day Earth, plate subduction continuously modifies the chemical composition of the convecting mantle, and various ...

The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

Researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS), along with collaborators from ...

A vast, ancient slab of seafloor plunged beneath the Pacific Ocean and has hovered in Earth’s mantle for more than 120 ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause ...

A mysterious find on Easter Island, investigated by a team of geologists, suggests that the Earth's mantle seems to behave differently than once thought.

A deep-diving robot that chiseled into the rocky Pacific seabed at a spot where two of the immense plates comprising Earth's ...

Researchers have discovered enormous tube worms and other creatures thriving in cavities beneath the seafloor on the East ...

Circumstance did not work out for Broadsiding in the Caulfield Guineas, but Godolphin trainer James Cummings has not lost ...