Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have ...

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

At first glance, landscapes like the Great Plains and the Rockies may seem unchanging, but over geological time scales, ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Frank Zwaan, a scientist in the Geodynamic Modeling section at GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences, present an answer to this question: using plate tectonic ...

The Blue Ghost mission to the moon has deployed one its NASA instruments, drilling into the moon's surface to collect ...

This study out of the University of Houston points to a new theory that as North America began to split away, the Great Lakes ...

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - The Nevada State Museum in Carson City unveiled a new exhibit last week that highlights the state’s ...

This month’s quiz and trivia piece focuses on one of those parks: Pinnacles National Park in California. How many of you have ...